Before I dived into the world of Windows Vista, I had been using ZoneAlarm firewall and I was quite pleased with it. However it wasn’t available for Vista when I first switched over.
I tried the newest version of ZoneAlarm right when it became available for Vista. When I installed it I got a blue screen of death. Luckily Vista automatically makes a restore point anytime you install new software. I had to boot-up in safe mode and restore my computer using the restore point. This worked perfectly (thank you Vista).
This brings me to my point, I tried again to install ZoneAlarm (the free version mind you) today which is about a month or so after the initial release. I again had the same blue screen of death.
I would strongly advise anyone running Vista to hold off on using ZoneAlarm.
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Exactly the same thing happened to me. Does anyone have any other suggestions for free firewalls, or how to get around this problem?