I've installed it to 4 different XP versions ... Home, Pro, and
MediaCenter with no issue.
Perhaps a rebuild of the winsock stack would resolve the issue ?

BTW, Mike Nash is now affiliated with a company that just came out with
a firewall. The free version is here:
http://www.tallemu.com/free-firewall...-software.html

Knowing Mike, I ***highly*** doubt that any product he would be
associated with has as many issues as Zone Alarm has with updating
Windows. ZA has gone waaayyy downhill since Checkpoint acquired it.

Just my 2¢

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
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R. McCarty wrote:

> The issue is with KB951748. It's advisable to unselect it as part of the
> 5 updates available today or uninstall if already applied. ( IF your PC
> is using Zone Alarm ).
>
> Cannot say if the hotfix causes issues on PC's that do not have Zone
> Alarm installed.
>
> "swassociates" <swassociates@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B34288EA-000B-43D7-A7DC-93DC93C8BE4E@microsoft.com...
>
>>I've experienced the same problem. I also posted the problem on the
>>ZoneAlarm
>>website.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>"R. McCarty" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Just a little info. Be careful of today's Microsoft Updates on machines
>>>that are using Zone Alarm Free ( Version 7.0.462 ) after rebooting the
>>>Zone Alarm client will block almost every web access with an alert.
>>>Still investigating and trying the newer 7.0.473 version to see if it
>>>will
>>>rectify the situation.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>