From: "Robert Comer" 

Why the heck is Zone Alarm even touching data like that???

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Bob Comer


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> My 2nd DVD drive kept changing it's drive letter on 2 different system and
> had me perplexed as to what was causing it. Twas Zone Alarm 6.5.x.x .
> Meethinks I need a new less dangerous firewall
>
>
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=3744
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> 6.5.x.x. has a known problem for anyone who is using the drive mapper in
> Windows Disk Management to re-letter their accessory drives such as
> CD/DVD/USB/Zip drives. I haven't had a problem with ZA re-lettering
> partitions, but my partitions are all lettered in order. But if your
> accessory drives are not lettered sequentially, ZA will change the drive
> letter of at least one of them. For instance, let's say you have on your
> HDD, partitions C: and D:, and you have a DVD called S: and a CD called T:
> For several people ZA will change the T: drive to letter E: (the first
> available drive letter). You can change it back to T: using the drive
> mapper in Windows Disk Management, but ZA will put it back to E: on the
> next reboot. ZA Tech Support is aware of the problem and wrote me that
> they hope to fix it in the next release. For me and others, reverting to
> version 6.1.744.001 stopped that problem with changing drive letters. So
> you might want to try to revert to that earlier version to see if it stops
> your problem (if indeed you are using a 6.5 version). The previous
> versions are available for download on the ZoneLabs support website.
>
> If this solves your problem, file a report to Tech Support so they will
> know the extent of the drive-letter changing problem, etc. with 6.5.x.x.
>
> Support form:
> https://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/forms/tech_support.jsp
>

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