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Zone Alarm remnant?

I installed ZAP a few months ago...
Long story short - I uninstalled it...

Now, I can not ping my laptop (other than locally).

Is there something left behind or some setting adjustment that doesn't get restored?
OR
Is there a way to easily make myself 'pingable' again...??
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how abt system restore ? thought of that ....ofcourse assuing you are using xp ..

Locally , you donot have any issue but from outside do you get standard error ?
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sunray- nope...disabled. :D

Pete - vsdata.dll & vsdatant.sys were the only two.  I'll reboot in a bit and see if that did it (neither gave any complaints when I renamed them tho)
sirbounty, I agree with Pete that there are a lot of problems uninstalling zonealarm, most things will be restored by just running the winsock fix: http://members.shaw.ca/techcd/WinsockXPFix.exe

LucF
Yeah, the definitive answer is upgrade it to pro then uninstall, that seems to be the general opinion on the official ZA discussion forum, I admit its a pig to get rid off but I wont use anything else (exept PIX of course)

Pete
Im willing to bet Neal isnt running windows 98 Ash ;)
hey pete, I know that for sure.. lol.. didnot get xp version of the same but as you can see i posted xp ver above
Duh - didn't even think of the winsock fix... :(
But, today's "Kona" day in the cafe and I don't really care for Kona...
It just doesn't wake me up quite like the Columbian Supremo. ;)

Thanx gang...I've got an intensive audit running now...will try the fixes and reboot shortly.
Good luck :)
Ah, so I wasn't the only one that thought it was fishy :)
Nice work Pete.. Awesome detective work ..
If you're using Windows XP, check the native personal firewall isn't configured to block incoming traffic !
You know what's funny tho Pete...mine was the only system in my entire building (500+) that avoided sasser yesterday - LOL.. Here are the points, but I think I'm going to restore those two files... :D
- I didnt get hit either :) but the network im on did (its not my network)