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A spokeswoman for firewall manufacturer Zone Labs said the company has reconsidered (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1179181,00.asp) a previous decision and will upgrade its free ZoneAlarm firewall software to address a vulnerability found this week. A patch to the free version of ZoneAlarm will be issued within two weeks, the company said.