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480917 2006-08-27 05:22:00 hello all,

i'm running win xp pro and have zone alarm pro installed. this has been working fine for a very long time. the only change lately is a switch to slingshot broadband from dialup.
now (3 times in the last 2 days), i get this file , updclient.exe, taking up 99% of my cpu. i cannot stop it in task manager.
the file resides in - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs.
only thing i can do is reboot. i've searched google and the zone alarm site to no avail.
anyone have any ideas??
id much appreciate your help!
:dogeye:
tingle (6539)
480918 2006-08-27 06:15:00 Hi tingle (Dr Bob). Have you tried the good old reinstallation of ZA?

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
480919 2006-08-27 06:19:00 no i haven't tried that! seems a bit obvious now....
i'll give it a go.

dr bob??
tingle (6539)
480920 2006-08-27 06:36:00 After reading many postings on various forums (fora ?) the general concensous seems to be that this problem arrived with version 6.5 of Zone Alarm both pro and free particularly if you have auto update set. The advise given is to revert to 6.1

HTH JT
jinja_thom (4306)
480921 2006-08-27 07:51:00 start/run......msconfig.......startup tab......disable the update client... drcspy (146)
480922 2006-08-27 08:16:00 thanks for the advice everyone.
i've reinstalled ZA and i'll see how it goes...

drcspy - there's was no entry in msconfig for that.
tingle (6539)
480923 2006-08-27 09:06:00 thanks for the advice everyone.
i've reinstalled ZA and i'll see how it goes...

drcspy - there's was no entry in msconfig for that.
Hi tingle. It could be listed under the "services". To access it, go to Start > Run > type in "services.msc" (without the quotation marks) > Hit the Return key.

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
480924 2006-08-27 12:54:00 I run ZA Pro latest version with no problems.

Trevor :)
Trev (427)
480925 2007-04-22 16:57:00 try to Turn off automatic Updates in Zone Alarm Mantrhax (11055)
480926 2007-04-22 19:44:00 Alternatively try COMODO Firewall

I tried the new exessively big free v7 zonealarm (39 meg on dialup = 2.5 hours)

What a nightmare it caused me

Fortunately I was saved because I had made an image file that morning
Tony.br (4018)
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