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By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:01:35 +0000

This app stopped MS IE and FireFox from running. At least I think this was the problem since after I uninstalled it I am now able to run Firefox and IE. Scared the #$!* out of me as I thought I needed to reinstall xp or had some virus. Maybe I just don’t know how to run the app correctly but in my opinion it should have not stopped my browsers from running.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:14:49 +0000

I know this comment is like a week late, but i’ve been away for a while. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS PROGRAM! It put critical system files in the virtual protection or whatever, so i tried to release them. it messed everything up, i couldn’t even log on. i’d get to the login screen, and there would be no users to click on! long story short i had to use the windows recovery program on the XP disk to recover my computer. No bueno

By: AvgJoe

AvgJoe — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:49:53 +0000

Caused me some serious problems. Lost the lot. Did my dough! Got shafted! Had a gutful! Had to start all over again. Damn it! This program caused me to lose about 12 months of work, like downloads etc. Here we go again.

By: Omar

Omar — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:50:13 +0000

It causes a blue screen error with reference to redlight.sys

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:06:34 +0000

This is probably a good protective tool on a very basic PC such as you might set up for your kids or your parents where there is not a lot of applications or complicated configuration, but is useless for a typical development workstation where you’ve got lots of network drives and are using specialized tools and drivers- the package seems to be incompatible with a lot of things and caused unexplained crashes and inability to mount network drives while it was loaded.. Ie, it made the machine safer, but seemed to accomplish that goal by making the machine unusable and crash prone.. I have removed it from my system, and stability has returned..

There are other “sandbox” packages out there that I’m going to look into because it’s a very good concept, but BufferZone is simply not yet ready for prime time..

By: penny

penny — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:46:28 +0000

This program worked great on one of my computers and crashed the other one. I want to recommend the program to a friend. Can someone tell me how to set up the program on a computer with multiple users so that it works for everyone? The computer it crashed had mcafee and several GOTD programs on it. I don’t know what it was conflicting with. The computer it works well on also has a few GOTD programs on it. Love the program on the computer that works.!

By: Torben

Torben — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:05:18 +0000

After restarting the computer BSOD!
Deactivated!!!
This program is kind of malware.

By: usmaak

usmaak — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:07:00 +0000

#156, I had the exact same thing happen to me. I got the same message and got stuck in a loop trying to reboot. The loop is actually a windows stop error that’s causing the machine to reboot. Boot from last known good configuration and uninstall the program and you should be fine.

By: usmaak

usmaak — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:04:05 +0000

After installing, I got a start error whenever trying to start my system. The only way to get back to a working state was to start from last known good configuration and uninstall the program. I tried installing this twice, and had the same results both times. So I can’t say whether it’s a good program or not, because I couldn’t run my system with it installed.

By: Joel Graebe

Joel Graebe — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:58:16 +0000

This software brought my system to it’s knees. Startup and shutdown took over 5 minutes! Performance was horrible and the uninstall was a nightmare.

FYI – WinXP SP2 w/all updates AMD 2800+ 1 MB RAM 300 GB HD