This is a crappy Zone Alarm problem! Get rid of that and use a real hardware firewall!
That depends on whether Microsoft allows ZoneAlarm to have early access to patches for testing purposes before the public release. And for popular software like ZoneAlarm, it's arguable that Microsoft should test all of their patches for compatibility.
We do agree that the hardware firewall is a better solution.
BULLCRAP!
Microsoft wrote this crap and targeted Zonealarm. It was devised to screw up people using a different firewall.
Zonealarm had nothing to do with it.
There's no such thing. What you call a "hardware" firewall is merely a box that uses software to configure traffic. That's exactly what a "software" firewall does.