XP Crashes with 4.8

[DavidR]

Did your son-in-law also use the uninstall utility, that could make a difference ?

In any case I would monitor these topics and the forums because I doubt this will be a problem that can't be resolved.

[Rick F]

Hopefully Vlk will get back to the topic about Zone Alarm question.

My thoughts were if it was an old version and (if) the vsdatant.sys file was associated with it, then it might be updated in the latest ZA installation.

Did you not see anything in the google search string I gave ?

David,

I've been watching this thread along with some others. I also use an older version of ZoneAlarm -- but it's vers: 7.0.302.000 so a bit newer than 'rfs123' has installed.  I checked the date and version number of 'vsdatant.sys' (located in \windows\system32) and it's file ver 7.0.302.000 dated 1/08/07.  It's 385KB in size.

BUT, as I'm still working on my Fed income taxes, I haven't tried installing avast 4.08 yet.  I can't afford my PC going down yet. 

I've had some bad luck updating to the newest vers of ZoneAlarm every time it's updated, so when I found one that works without trouble, I've stick with it.

[DavidR]

Thanks Rick.