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zonealarm

brings me back to desktop, so any games or anything running in "fullscreen" (not just maximised) minimises whenever zonealarm is updating.

Is anyone else experiencing this?
 
Zone alarm is awful for gamers, i used to use it... There are other better free firewalls out there, it's just that i cant think of many right now, google for "comodo firewall", give that a try...
 
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Windows XP firewall isn't as bad as all that, as long as you get all the latest updates, I wouldn't trust it personally though.

Another free one to try is, Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall. It loses some features, like ad blocking after the trial period is up, but you keep the best firewall features for free.
 
actually windows firewall is crapware :D circumvented within 2 mins with the right code first to attempt it when XP came out were a couple of friends of mine, altho l cant talk for other security guys
 
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Well kerio comes up with a bizzare error message whenever i shut down, so i stopped using it.

Think i might just turn off the auto updates whenever im playing.
 
omg

ok apparantly you have to pay for the full version to access a "gaming mode" to stop it interfering.

And just when i thought it could not sink any lower it just came up with this popup (whilst i was playing a game)

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This piece of software has now been relegated to spyware status imho.

Think i will give kerio another go
 
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