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ZoneAlarm updated after Microsoft DNS patch

Robert Vamosi CNET News.com

Published: 11 Jul 2008 08:50 BST

On Thursday, Check Point Software Technologies released updated versions of all its ZoneAlarm products, addressing an incompatibility with a patch Microsoft released earlier this week.

The fix requires ZoneAlarm users to download the latest version, 7.0.483.000, from the ZoneAlarm website. A reboot is required to complete installation.

Since Tuesday, ZoneAlarm customers have complained that access to the internet was denied after installing MS08-037, a patch designed by Microsoft to fix a vulnerability in both the client and server Domain Name System (DNS) packages within Windows.

Earlier on Tuesday, a security researcher announced a massive, multi-vendor patch release to address a fundamental flaw in DNS that could allow attackers to spoof IP addresses.

Workarounds included uninstalling MS08-037, changing ZoneAlarm's internet-security settings from high to medium, or temporarily using the Windows Firewall instead.

Check Point provided no additional comments about the cause of the outage.

Credit: ZoneAlarm updated after Microsoft's DNS patch from CNET News.com

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It seems to me this is a burden being placed on the wrong shoulders. There is not an It system in the world that can stop an individual taking information in their heads and spewing out at the nearest undesirable third party.