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Balloon messages in Windows XP SP2

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by computab

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Microsoft are fighting back against other firewalls, including Norton and Zonealarm in PCs loaded with SP2. I now get a message at startup 'Your firewall status is unknown', in fact Zonealarm is installed . I have run GPEDIT.msc in user configuration/administrative templates/ start menu and taskbar remove balloon tips - enabled. Anyone know about this?

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by p.j.hutchison

I suspect the version for Zonealarm is unknown to MS Security Centre. Update it to latest version.
You can turn off these messages in MS Security Center control panel.

by rewrite

If you have a firewall and anti-virus app then just go to Control Panel and open the Security Center. You can set the Security Center to not check or warn you for both of these (and also ms updates). I routinely disable everything in the Security Center and maintain my own system. MS alerts have never seemed to be very helpful.

Cheers.

RW

by rindi1

Either you have to update zoenalarm as already suggested, or you will need to get patches for zonealarm from the homepage of zonealarm. These should be able to take over control from the M$ Firewall and therefore the messages won't turn up anymore.

by slouthia

Zonealarm can be a pain if you don't set it's parameters to your liking (minimum). You are going to have to choose between the two. Pick the most up-to-date and live with it. Setting XP to classic view may help.

by trockii

I have Zone Alarm Suite on my computer (fully updated) along with XP SP2. Upon bootup initially after installing SP2 it asked which firewall I wanted to use. I selected Zone Alarm and it now monitors the firwall.

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