Can you help with zone alarm, please?

Question

My AVG does a scheduled update each morning.
Recently I added zone alarm for extra security.
The last few days when AVG starts it's update, zone alarm warns me that it is trying to configure Windriver and recommends I deny AVG access to it.
Can someone please explain what this means and what I should do, please?

Answer 1

Zone Alarm will alert you to any program trying to make changes to system functions. It is up to you to decide if you trust the site trying to make the changes. AVG is a trusted site. To make sure the Auto update of AVG has not been corrupted I would go to the Grisoft and do a manual Update. If it Zone Alarm blocks this change, you know it is needed by AVG. If AVG does not try to make the change then you know the Auto Update was a bogus one.

Answer 2

Zone Alarm monitors all inbound/outbound traffic. It will alert you whenever a program like AVG is trying to connect to the outside world unless you allow it through ZA.



AVG checks the grisoft.com site for new signature file updates regularly and ZA is just telling you about the outbound request.



In ZA ,



Left click on Program Control

Scroll down to the AVG icons

Make sure the both Trusted and Internet have green checks

under the Access column



Have fun but be safe!

Answer 3

With Windows XP, you can't run two antivirus programs at once. You have to have one or the other.