ZoneAlarm updated after Microsoft DNS patch

11 Jul 2008 08:38

Check Point has released updated versions of all ZoneAlarm products, after a Microsoft patch caused users to lose internet access

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.

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