Zone Alarm

[Thabiso]

Can anyone please tell me how Zone Alarm works.I know it acts as a firewall(i think).Where to get it from ,I am in South Africa.Or whether it is from ISP's.One other question what is CACHE.

Any help would be appreciated.

TA in advance.

[Dudster]

ZoneAlarm is a firewall and you can get it here www.zonelabs.com (http://www.zonelabs.com) (just download the free version. It's about 3Megs in size (I think) which should only take about 10 minutes to download on a 56k modem) I use it myself and it comes highly recommended. It's also really easy to use http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

When you say cache, I assume you mean the internet cache (the files in your Temporary Internet Files folder). This is just all the files from the sites you've been to recently (for faster loading times next time you visit and for offline browsing).

[Thabiso]

TaA boet.Now my problem is I cannot get access.
This is a message from the Netpilot.
You are not allowed to access that page because it is in the global forbidden sites list.
Access to URL http://www.zonelabs.com/ denied for user - (IP address ).N.B i removed address 4 some reasons.

Your Netpilot has an unlimited user licence
ss to www.zonelabs.com (http://www.zonelabs.com) I get this message

[club_med]

I greatly recommend anyone to use ZA, its very good, and its free !.

If you like I or someone else here at Systopt could maybe post a copy of ZA on some other site for you to download ?.

cm.

[Thabiso]

I would really appreciate it.
TA in advance.

[U-96]

This is Cnet's mirror download location:
http://wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/flood/zonalm26.exe

[vass0922]

I prefer Sygate Personal Firewall myself, I found it more intuitive and I got the all clear from GRC so it can't be half bad http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

FREE TOO
www.sygate.com (http://www.sygate.com) (NO I don't work there lol, just a preference http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif)

[RustyGT]

Just a follow on from vass's reply.
Try your firewall at http://grc.com

Use Sheild's Up. Read the disclaimer, etc.
A good [if opinionated] guide to internet security.

There's also a good read here.
The GRC DDoS saga.

The world record speed for an R/C plane is 269.5 Mph. See it at www.amtjets.com (http://www.amtjets.com)

Cheers R.

[Thabiso]

Im in a mess,can someone please pull me out.I installed ZA yesterday and all was working fine until I tried to read my e-mails.Im using MS exchange server for e-mails.I could not receive any.Another thing Im running a dual boot with Win2k & Win98se.ZA is installed on Win2k.This morning 07h45 GMT I tried to access my MS Outlook from Win2k and couldnt get anything then booted to Win98 that was when I could access my e-mails.
Can someone please tell me what is going on.And another thing I can access IE on Win2k.

What is going on??????

Any help would be apprecited.

TA in advance

[sharder8]

I have run into a similar problem in W2000Pro when running ZoneAlarm. When I've up-dated or installed a couple of programs, ZoneAlarm has become corrupted. The only way to verify is to shut ZoneAlarm down and try it again. (You can get on the net, but can't go anywhere or get e-mail.)

If everything works with ZoneAlarm shut down, un-install ZoneAlarm and restart. That's taken care of my problems so far. I then okay again until I happen to install certain programs or up-date certain programs, the it's shut down ZoneAlarm, verify the problem is corrupted ZoneAlarm files, and re-install.

Hope that helps.

Harder

[Thabiso]

Thanks a lot.I unistalled it(ZA) and now I can access my network resources.What I dont understand is how come I was able to access IE and other resources I couldnt.

TA in advance

[RustyGT]

Makes me wonder that ZA is not compatible with a networked environment. I'd suggest that ZA is targeted at the standalone home user.
I'd like to think that your workplace server is running thru a proxy or firewalled.
In which case, let your sys admin deal with security issues.
This wouldn't be the 1st time, I've heard grumbles about ZA.
But then:'The user deems fit, the application'
And I'm sure ZA will be on a crackerz hit list even as we speak.
It works. R.

[SickPup404]

I use ZA on a small home network (just 3 PC's with a hub - all 98SE) and it works fine... You do need to go into the network setup and tell ZA what the local IP's are either explicitly or by range or by machine name... I couldn't get to my two other machines until I did this...

[sharder8]

I have a similar set-up as SickPup404 --

Small home network (4-PC's with a hub - all Win2000Pro) and SickPup hit the key, tell ZA what the local IP's are either explicitly or by range or by machine name

Harder