The joy of modern technology

[julesjones]

Too tired last night to check what the new Windows patch was and whether it had any known issues before letting it install on shutdown. Bad move. No intertubes when I booted this morning. Fortunately Other Half has been more in touch with cyberspace than I have this week, and was able to inform me that the new patch Does Not Play Well with ZoneAlarm. So entertainment over breakfast was switch on Windows firewall, switch off ZoneAlarm, go out and find the ZA patch, install, reboot. I have intertubes again, and am thinking that this weekend would be a really good time to get around to doing that full backup followed by spring-cleaning my hard drive.

ETA: Just in case anyone else uses ZA and hasn't already found out about this the hard way, here's the ZA advisory explaining what to do:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pressReleases/2008/LossOfInternetAccessIssue.html

Comments

[shana.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the update.

I am now downloading the ZA update, which I will install before installing the Windows update.

That should do it.

[julesjones]

Thought it might be useful to mention it just in case I wasn't the last person in the universe to know about it.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. I knew about the problem, and had uninstalled ZA when it happened to me, but I hadn't got around to finding the patch. It seems to be working now, although it didn't boot properly until the third or fourth attempt.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

I stopped downloading XP patches a while ago, after some irritating problems.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Being almost computer illiterate, I was going a bit crazy with this. See, I new why I follow your blog, it's not only to get information about your books.

Inga

Re: Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[julesjones]

Glad it helped. :-)