KB951748 security update blocked my internet completely today. Grrr

We had massive problems in the office with ZoneAlarm and KB951978
messing with each other. Half of the problem was knowing what users
might be affected, or if they hadn't been affected yet whether they
would be. I've been using Paglo to find the all users with ZoneAlarm
and also to check which machines haven't got the patch yet (https://
community.paglo.com/blog_topic/index/135-are-your-windows-machines-
patched-against-the-dns-cache-poisoning-vulnerability).

It might be time to give Zone the heave-ho.

Sam

On Jul 10, 2:07*pm, "Jim" <j_outlerNOS...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Had the same problem of not being able to connect to internet.
>
> Un-installed KB951749 and everything is OK.
>
> Not sure if ZoneAlarm had anything to do with the problem, since the 'July
> 2008 edition of MS malicious software removal tool' was installed at the
> same instance as the KB and that seemed to have had no problem .
>
> --
> Jim
> "What we know is minuscule to what we don't know..."

"TaurArian" wrote:

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> "Charles Lee" <No_Spam@for.me> wrote in message
> news:Or85iVb4IHA.4488@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> | My internet was blocked completely by the last security update....
> | yesterday, I was fine....
> |
> | I have 3 pc's on a home network, all on xp...
> |
> | 2 of them, I let update with the latest offering from ms... the security
> | update KB951748...
> |
> | then I lost all connectivy to the net via my router upon reboot, except for
> | the pc I didn't update...
> |
> | pc number 2, I recovered via system restore, back to yesterday... all became
> | fine again...
> |
> |
> | with my main pc, I had not any restore points.... so had to remove the
> | update via 'add/remove' which then killed off 2 programs after uninstalling,
> | which I then had to reinstall.... yawn....
> |
> | after removing KB951748, my internet connection came back to me, like a
> | faithful dog, no probs... phew....
> |
> |
> |
> | is there a way to install this update & adjust it so internet stays working,
> | or....
> | should this update be avoided altoogether...???????
> |
>
>
> If you're using ZA - you should read this -
>
> Zone Alarm & KB951748 Workaround:
> http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/b...ssage.id=52727
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>
> xposted to the Windows Update Newsgroup for your convenience.
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