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Re: Tor crashes ZoneAlarm



Kees,

I see this problem all the time.
To avoid this, you must uninstall zone alarm and get a real firewall.
Then contact zone alarm, tell them they make a crappy product and why.

Regards,
 Arrakistor

Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 10:38:31 PM, you wrote:

> I have recently installed the latest vidalia-tor-privoxy bundle from the
> tor.eff.org website (vidalia-bundle-0.1.1.23-0.0.7.exe). And it keep
> crashing ZoneAlarm (vmon.exe).

> I can easily repoduce it:
> 1. Make sure that tor + vidalia are running.
> 2. Start Thunderbird (with Tor-button extension)
> 3. Check you email (will time out first time and crash ZoneAlarm,
> usually second or third time).

> My ZoneAlarm version is: version 6.5.731.

> I have now tested this on four different machines, running XP-Pro (with
> and without SP2) or W2K, and all exhibit the same behaviour. Does anyone
> know what is going wrong and how I can avoid this?

> Thank you very much,

> Kees