Xolox still incompatible with Zone Alarm...
 

I always had trouble with XoloX because of some unknown incompatibility with ZoneAlarm. When ZA is running, XoloX freezes on startup. When I diasble ZA and restart the computer, XoloX runs well. I have ZA version 2.6.362, security level set at Medium, all permissions granted to ZA.

I wrote to Zone Labs about this and, incredibly, they replied, but only to tell me to set security level at Medium, something I had already tried.

I had this problem with XoloX 1.12 and now with 1.19

ZA doen't seem to cause problems with other P2P apps, such as winMX and Gnotella.

Any other people out there with this problem? Any fix?

My computer is a P III 550 with 128 MB, Asus board, Soundblaster 128, ATI 16 MB video Win 98 SE ...nothing unusual

Thanks

Hmm...

I am running w2k without any problems...

I will test it with 98se!

Morgwen

same here. i have zone alarm and xolox wont even connect even when i allow it to connect to the net.

I am the Unregistered who started this thread. Would like to know from the last Unregistered if he just can't connect or if XoloX also freezes on startup.

Waiting for news from others

Freezer

Did you give the permission to act as a server? If not try it again...

Morgwen

Yes I gave it permission to act as a server. It is more complicated than that. If no one else has this problem, then it has to do with something particular to my system. On the other hand, if many people have this problem, then the problem could be related to XoloX itself.

Freezer

I am running Win XP with ZoneAlarm and I find that I have to shut down the firewall when using xolox. With ZoneAlarm running I can connect to the network, and search but I cannot d/l anything. When I shut it down it works okay.

Do you have ZA Pro? I run ZA Pro 3.0.118 on Win98se since 1.18 and it does fine, although it does take it a little longer to connect to the network.

Xolox 1.20 (build 177) is running fine for me on a Win XP Pro system behind both a hardware firewall (Linksys DSL Router) and a software firewall (Zone Alarm Pro, ver. 3.0.118).

"Xolox 1.20 (build 177) is running fine for me on a Win XP Pro system behind both a hardware firewall (Linksys DSL Router) and a software firewall (Zone Alarm Pro, ver. 3.0.118)."

Same here, never a problem. For many months with any version of ZAPro.