Re: Loading the ZoneAlarm firewall early

From: Nicholas & Anthony McKenzie (themac@iinet.net.au)
Date: 12/04/01 

From: "Nicholas & Anthony McKenzie" <themac@iinet.net.au>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:44:07 -0800

in the configure menu there is an option that you can flag to "load
zonealram at startup".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maryanne Peaslee" <mpeaslee@symantec.com>
To: "Meritt James" <meritt_james@bah.com>
Cc: "Peter Tien" <ptien@coolfire.com>;
<security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: Loading the ZoneAlarm firewall early

>
> If you only load it at startup, theoretically you are at risk for those
few
> seconds between booting and Windows loading.
>
> Maryanne
>
>
>
> "Meritt James"
> <meritt_james@ To: Peter Tien
<ptien@coolfire.com>
> bah.com> cc:
security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: Loading the
ZoneAlarm firewall early
> 11/29/2001
> 10:38 AM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Lotsa trouble. Why not just start Zonealarm, go to the configuration
> tab and select "Load ZoneAlarm at startup"?
>
> Peter Tien wrote:
> >
> > By default Zone Alarm should start when the machine boots up. If it is
> not then you can add a string value to the registry to start it. Add it
in:
> >
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows->CurrentVersion->Run
> >
> > There should be a entry there for it already, if not, then create it. As
> always back up your registry before tinkering. If things go bad, at least
> you can restore it.
> >
> > -pete
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poole, Clifton [mailto:Poolec@ndu.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:04 PM
> > To: security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
> > Subject: Loading the ZoneAlarm firewall early
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to have my personal firewall loaded as soon as possible
when
> my
> > 2K box boots up. I have searched the Zone Labs for a command line
> options
> > but could not find anything. What is available in 2K? Do I use the
> win.ini
> > file to load it? This seems simple to do, but I can not figure it out.
> >
> >
> > Home
>
> --
> James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
> Booz | Allen | Hamilton
> phone: (410) 684-6566
>
>
>
>

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