Posted June 16, 200816 yr I can't find the privacy tab in Zone Alarm...I have the current free for personal use version. "SmoothUpdate" wrote: > If you are getting "Error number: 0x80072F76" when you try to use Windows > Update, and you are using Zone Alarm, all you need to do is the following: > > 1. Open Zone Alarm and click the "Privacy" tab. > > 2. Turn off ALL privacy options! Yes ALL of them! ( The slider bars for > "Cookie Control" and "Add Blocking", should say: "Off" and the "Mobile Code > Control" radio buttons should be set to "Off") You may need to open the > "custom" options and uncheck them all manually. > > 3. Refresh the Windows Update page that was showing you the error, and > everything will show up like it should! > > Why does this happen??? > > Zone Alarm uses a JavaScript "LoopBack Adapter" CGI filter to control all > privacy settings/behavior, and this majorly screws up Windows Update (as well > as the JavaScript of many other sites -though not usually as drastically). > ALL Zone Alarm "Privacy" options MUST be turned off before Zone Alarm will > stop filtering JavaScript in this way (using the CGI Loop-Back). > > When Zone Alarm is filtering using the CGI Loop-Back, JavaScript that would > normally be processed as something like: > > http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/shared/js/tgar.js?632681379147477303 > > Becomes something like: > > http://127.0.0.1:1025/js.cgi?pa&r=11323
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