In news:uP6u4z41FHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
CGB <nospam@nospam.net> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Followed recommendations and installed SP2 in about 40 minutes. All
> went well, except my free version of Zone Alarm stopped loading at
> startup. (I had told Windows XP not to use their firewall). I
> uninstalled Zone Alarm and reinstalled, now it still doesn't load at
> startup. Instead, I get an open explorer window of a folder called
> Zone.com
> I have to close this folder and go in and manually start ZoneAlarm. I have
> ZoneAlarm set to automatically run on startup but instead it's
> opening some folder!
>
> Chet


Update ZoneAlarm to it's newest version or consider an alternative.

Firewalls - Basics:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/securi...ls-basics.html


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