Two security companies whose firewall offerings were incompatible with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 have fixed the problems with updates.
Last-minute changes to the service pack – released July 31, five-and-a-half months after Windows 2000 was launched – caused firewalls from Network ICE and Zone Alarm to crash. Both companies have updated their products to fix the bug.
A patch for ZoneAlarm 2.1, available for download at http://www.zonelabs.com/download_patch.htm, was released a couple of days after Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 came out, according to the San Francisco-based company.
Over the weekend, Network ICE, based in San Mateo, Calif., posted a patch for BlackICE Defender 2.1 at http://netice.com/html/blackice_defender_update.html.