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<blockquote data-quote="simmerskool" data-source="post: 1092885" data-attributes="member: 61091">I ran into curious SNAFU with ZA anti-ransomware on my win10_vm. I was interested in ZAAR for mac after [USER=99014]@Trident[/USER] started a thread[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://malwaretips.com/threads/announcing-zonealarm-anti-ransomware-for-mac-beta.131963/[/URL]I decided against installing ZAAR on my mac_mini (for today) then realized I had a VM perfect for ZAAR, or so I thought. win10_vm running MS Defender and ZA firewall (free). I assumed ZAAR would be a perfect addition, but it literally would NOT install or even run. Could not figure what was blocking its installation. I got a system popup saying &quot;windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.&quot;&nbsp; I logged in as admin, moved (copied) zaarsetup.exe to admin desktop, checked the file permission = full access, etc... I even disabled MS Defender with same result. I do not recall that ever happening in most recent past several decades! It just occurred to me that perhaps ZA firewall was blocking ZAAR, but don&#039;t have a clear idea why that would be, but it&#039;s the only thing I did not try, ie, disabling or uninstalling ZA firewall. Seems unlikely that it was somehow blocked by VMware. The setup file has a good hash per Virustotal. Clueless, ideas welcome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="simmerskool, post: 1092885, member: 61091"] I ran into curious SNAFU with ZA anti-ransomware on my win10_vm. I was interested in ZAAR for mac after [USER=99014]@Trident[/USER] started a thread [URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/announcing-zonealarm-anti-ransomware-for-mac-beta.131963/[/URL] I decided against installing ZAAR on my mac_mini (for today) then realized I had a VM perfect for ZAAR, or so I thought. win10_vm running MS Defender and ZA firewall (free). I assumed ZAAR would be a perfect addition, but it literally would NOT install or even run. Could not figure what was blocking its installation. I got a system popup saying "windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I logged in as admin, moved (copied) zaarsetup.exe to admin desktop, checked the file permission = full access, etc... I even disabled MS Defender with same result. I do not recall that ever happening in most recent past several decades! It just occurred to me that perhaps ZA firewall was blocking ZAAR, but don't have a clear idea why that would be, but it's the only thing I did not try, ie, disabling or uninstalling ZA firewall. Seems unlikely that it was somehow blocked by VMware. The setup file has a good hash per Virustotal. Clueless, ideas welcome. [/QUOTE]

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