Low resources with Zone Alarm

[Curly_Q_Link]

I have been having a problem using Xolox while Zone Alarm is running. My puter's resources always shoot to a "Dangerously low level" and everthing virtually freezes. If I wait long enough I can sometimes shut down ZA and everthing works fine. Not running ZA works the best of course. I have tried setting ZA security levels to low and/or medium, turned off logging of alarms, made sure access to Xolox is granted, etc. - no luck

Anyone have similar probs? solutions? (other than don't use ZA)

System is:
Mobo - ASUS A7V266
CPU - AMD thunderbird 900 @1008Mhz
Micron Ram 256mb
Graphics - Geforce256 pro
IBM HD 30G


Thanks in Advance

CQL

[Helios]

I have exactly the same problem.
with almost the same specs.
I switch between ZA and Norton Personal Firewall.


Mobo :Asus a7v133
CPU :AMD Th 800
Ram :512Mb
Graphics:Geforce 256 DDR
HD :IBM DS 40G

[mrgone4662]

ZA is a massive resource hog. If you're up to learning a little about configuring a firewall you should try using Kerio Personal Firewall. It's free and has a very tiny footprint. You can find alot of support for it at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/kerio

Have fun!

Using ZA doesn't seem to interfere with any other programs, 84% resources free when just on the desktop, resources only drop in combination with xolox. Easiest thing i guess is to just shut it off when using xolox.

[xolox_girl]

not sure if its meant to have been resolved or not but there was a problem running xolox v1.12 with ZoneAlarm previously. the two conflicted for some reason. i think that there should be older threads that discussed it although i'm not sure how relevant they are to v1.18

xg

[KayaMan]

I have ran my own tests using Zonealarm and found that with network setting to medium there was no problem connecting with XoloX ( although it does take a bit longer to find nodes being firewalled ). As far as resources go, it was nothing out of the ordinary and ZA itself is a hog. If you set your level of security to high ( not talking about the internet zone setting) then you will likely get a 'socketdata' error since it can't connect.

I guess each system is different, but I imagine if you can't connect or are having problem using XoloX with Zone Alarm you simply have your firewall configured poorly.