True Vector Engine

Matthew · 07-09-2003, 09:49

For a while now my computer often restarted for a unknown reason. I have unticked automatically restart under the system failure tab so I knew it could not be that. It happened again earlier so I thought I would look in system events and it shows that True Vector Engine is the cause of the problem.

What is it and what does it do?

Please help because this is driving me nuts.

Russ · 07-09-2003, 10:02

True Vector is part of Zone Alarm, have you tried reinstalling it? If you have a look on www.zonelabs.com for their FAQ guide, you may find help there.

martinell · 07-09-2003, 10:42

short an sweet.... get rid of zone alarm and try something else.soooooooo many bugs in ZA it'll drive you mad. try sygate or tiny or just get a decent router

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Paul K · 07-09-2003, 10:53

Which version of Zone Alarm are you running. I used to get True vector engine problems up until v4, What operating sytem are you running? XP?
If you have unticked automatic restart on failure what messages appear on screen when the system fals? You could be seeing True vector related errors in the event viewer because True vector isnt getting time to shut down properly due to something else failling.
Do you get a blue screen at all or message box on screen? If so write the message down or print screen it and let us know.

Matthew · 07-09-2003, 11:37

I have not tried reinstalling it yet but I will give it a try.

martinell: I am not on broadband, I am on 56k because I cannot get NTL.

I am running Zone Alarm Pro.

Zone Alarm Pro version: 3.0.118
TrueVector security engine version: 3.0.118
Driver version: 3.0.118

Russ · 07-09-2003, 11:45

If you're using ZA Pro version 3 you should try a manual update as version 4 is now out

Paul K · 07-09-2003, 11:49

4Mb download on dial up? Nooooo!
Might want to choose a clean install when you do it. Clear out any files that may be problematic.
Follow these instructions to make sure nothing is left behind from the old install, that way you can minimise problems with the new install.
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...stallXPFAQ.jsp

Matthew · 07-09-2003, 12:54

4MB download on dial up does not take long. I've done 30mb in about 45 mins at 7pm before.

Matthew · 07-09-2003, 12:56

I think I have sorted it anyway so I will see and I can always download it later.

07-09-2003, 17:03

Quote:

Originally posted by leggom
4MB download on dial up does not take long. I've done 30mb in about 45 mins at 7pm before.

30MB in 45mins on dial-up.

How on earth did you manage that? Thats almost 100kbps.
The best I could manage was 1MB in 5mins.

Matthew · 07-09-2003, 20:10

I use Fresh Download. It speeds things up quite a lot but that 30MB download was done with out using that.