[3Jane]

Originally Posted by jumpy

Using Zone ALarm PRO here.
no instances of windows on its own crashing that I can confirm.
However due to me discarding all of my previous firewall settings I have had some programs crash when trying to use the internet following the update. Americas Army online, Sniper Elite, Firefox (not a crash just a denial of access) and punkbuster anti cheat software that runs under some multiplayer games. All have crashed requiring an 'end task' or they have frozen windows prompting me to reset the computer.
Going through the program control list and modifying the access rights of various installed software, assuming you know what you are looking for, makes things much easier too.
Using the right click option in ZA PRO and selecting 'game mode' seems to help somewhat.

I remember having trouble before with the last release if I let ZA boot at startup- it used to hang my computer (am2 3800+ with 2gb ram). So now I manually invoke the firewall before I initialise my internet connection and my pc boots prety quickly.

Now that most of my internet capable programs have been used at least once or given permission rights as above, I don't seem to have any further issues /touch wood.

Yes, mine works o.k once the machine has booted and I have been starting it manualy afterwards.