requirements to run latest zone alarm?

Pentium III 450, 256 megs of ram, running Windows '98 SE, with
all the patches, latest version of Firefox, Agent, CA Antivirus,
ZoneAlarm, MSN. Seems to crash too often.

Is the PC not high enough spec? using a Voyager 105 as the PC has
no ethernet. Could it be the firewall causing the crashes? Or
look for a router maybe? The Voyager 205 looks good as the PC has
no eternet & no spare slots I think...

tia, Alex.
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Alex.@.home running on LX (Athlon XP 2.4, XP PRO madasafish 2meg)
Alex.@.work running on HAL (Pentium 3 450, 98 SE madasafish 1meg)

In my experience Zone Alarm was unstable to say the least on 98/98SE/ME.
It's pretty stable now I have been using XP.

Dan

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(E-Mail Removed) "Daniel" wrote:

> In my experience Zone Alarm was unstable to say the least on 98/98SE/ME.
> It's pretty stable now I have been using XP.

Not my experience with similar hardware, but I would be suspicious of
the USB side of things.

--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

"I am Number Two," said Penfold. "You are Number Six."

Alex. wrote:

> Pentium III 450, 256 megs of ram, running Windows '98 SE, with
> all the patches, latest version of Firefox, Agent, CA Antivirus,
> ZoneAlarm, MSN. Seems to crash too often.
>
> Is the PC not high enough spec? using a Voyager 105 as the PC has
> no ethernet. Could it be the firewall causing the crashes? Or
> look for a router maybe? The Voyager 205 looks good as the PC has
> no eternet & no spare slots I think...

Router is a very good idea - I am using Netgear DG632 via USB for the
same reason (no spare slot on my PII 400 for Ethernet card). I don't
have any problems with ZoneAlarm, but then again, I am using Windows
2000 which has never crashed in the 3 years I've been using it. I
still use ZA, despite having a Router firewall, because it provides
outbound protection (Routers only inbound) and good security is
several layers deep. :-)

> Router is a very good idea - I am using Netgear DG632 via USB for the
> same reason (no spare slot on my PII 400 for Ethernet card). I don't
> have any problems with ZoneAlarm, but then again, I am using Windows
> 2000 which has never crashed in the 3 years I've been using it. I
> still use ZA, despite having a Router firewall, because it provides
> outbound protection (Routers only inbound) and good security is
> several layers deep. :-)

Your routers firewall has inbound and outbound rules.

Dave