my computer is dead?

satarno · Post by **satarno** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 11:41 pm

please do help me on this
i had a fire wall on my computer called >tiny firewall< then i though is better to use zone alarm when i installed the zonealarm pro . some thing went wrong
so i got the blue screen of death and my windows xp restarted and ever time restarted the blue screen come on and the computer rebooted directly ...
so now i don't know how to stop the computer from this rebooting i can't even ad or edit on the window coz it go directly to reboot .. its on a circle of rebooting from the time i on my pc
the computer is rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and i could not stop it

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease try to help me on this please

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 11:47 pm

Bad move, ZA sucks

, anyway try booting into safe mode and removing it or use system restore.

P.S. Go back to Tiny or even Sygate.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 11:48 pm

Oh yeah.... once you get it uninstalled (if you don't use system restore) go to ZA site and remove all the left over crap from it.... you have to do it manually.

satarno · Post by **satarno** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 12:17 am

thank you very much .. for the fast reply thank you very much
but now i can't get in to my computer .. how can i use the safe mode or any other choice .. please

satarno · Post by **satarno** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 1:03 am

thank you my friend.. i have fixed it and its working just great thank you
do you think i stay with tiny firewall or there is a better thing

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 5:26 am

Stick with Tiny, it is a great product.

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 11:10 pm

Go into your registry and make sure you delete ALL of ZA manually. It's as bad as AOL.

I myself like Sygate's free version.

rclayton17 · Post by **rclayton17** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 11:14 pm

hmm i use ZA free version.. haven't had any problems with it..

"bad as aol" (uh oh)... should i get another firewall? lol i need to know!

Ploxhoi · Post by **Ploxhoi** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 12:44 am

I have been using ZA for well over a year. Both versions 2 and 3. Never had any trouble.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 5:30 pm

Originally posted by rclayton17
hmm i use ZA free version.. haven't had any problems with it..

"bad as aol" (uh oh)... should i get another firewall? lol i need to know!

Yes rclayton17 get another firewall, try Sygate Personal Firewall.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:32 pm

Reboot into dos and use the deltree command to remove it.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:33 pm

Nevermind, I didnt realize you guys removed it already

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:09 pm

YES! ZA SUX badly. Use Sygates' free version

,Tiny,or Outpost. If your still loop booting go to controll advanced/pannel/systems/startup and recovery/settings. in settings there is a box that says "automaticaly restart" under system failure. uncheck it.
P.S. if you have a windows key (usually between ctrl/alt) press that and pause break to bring uo your system window.

rclayton17 · Post by **rclayton17** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 9:36 pm

ok guys, i believe ya, but could you back it up with reasons why it sucks (even if no one is having problems)?

I would like to know what is better about the other ones than ZA

maybe ill make the big change 2nite :P

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 9:40 pm

I have noticed a slow down in my connection when using ZA, random disconnects, image display problems & it is a pain in the A#@ to fully remove from your pc.

rclayton17 · Post by **rclayton17** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 10:04 pm

one more question... mnosteele, you recommend sygate and tiny (i guess you like sygate better). And also i saw outpost somewhere.

What is better about sygate than tiny, outpost? how about which one uses less system resources and is a faster performer?

Just narrowing down my choices :P

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 10:09 pm

In my opinion Sygate uses very little resources and has a very easy interface to use, it also has allot of nice extra security features.

rclayton17 · Post by **rclayton17** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 10:15 pm

I'm down for that y0.

Sygate, here i come!!!

all i have to do now is some research on how to uninstall za properly from win98se. bah.

rclayton17 · Post by **rclayton17** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 10:17 pm

btw, does sygate have an alert window (so that you can permanently "allow" it?... like ZA) when a new program tries to access the internet?

Just wanna make sure its easy for my dad :P

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 10:27 pm

Originally posted by rclayton17
btw, does sygate have an alert window (so that you can permanently "allow" it?... like ZA) when a new program tries to access the internet?

Just wanna make sure its easy for my dad :P

Yes it does and an extra security feature that goes along with that is if the app that is trying to access the internet changes in any way it asks for permission again..... just to be safe.