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Geek Culture / Check Point and Facebook (is it Zonealarm stopping me logging in?)

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WLGfx
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Location: NW United Kingdom
Posted: 7th Jul 2012 15:48
I've recently done a clean install on my laptop with Windows XP on one half of my HD and then put Linux on the other half, a dual boot. As usual I put Zonealarm onto Windows and now I don't even need an anti-virus because it comes with it.

The problem I am having is when I am in Windows I cannot log into my facebook account, it keeps taking me to facebook.com/checkpoint and telling me that I possibly have virus's. And I can log in fine using the Linux installation and use it great. I've used Zonealarm to run a full scan and I don't want to download the offer of McAffee from the checkpoint page.

When I log into facebook using Linux and check all my account settings I find that I'm loggin in from two completely different locations when using Windows and Linux, but they are actually me logging in.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way around it?

If not, is there an alternative to using Zonealarm for a firewall and anti-virus?

Mental arithmetic? Me? (That's for computers) I can't subtract a fart from a plate of beans!
Warning! May contain Nuts!
WLGfx
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Joined: 1st Nov 2007
Location: NW United Kingdom
Posted: 9th Jul 2012 00:43 Edited at: 9th Jul 2012 03:32
If there is anybody out there that is also having this problem then I've found a solution. Download Firefox and that will work with Facebook. I'm just going to change my firewall/antivirus from Zonealarm to see if that does anything.

EDIT: My system clock was 1 hour behind, I changed that and re-loaded Chrome and it worked again...

Mental arithmetic? Me? (That's for computers) I can't subtract a fart from a plate of beans!
Warning! May contain Nuts!

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