Re: ZoneAlarm & Mozilla Thunderbird

From: sh4d03 (sh4d03_at_TPG.com.au)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:03:44 +1100

Samuël ML Lison wrote:
> sh4d03 wrote:
>
>> If you've recently updated to Windows XP SP2 you might want to play
>> around with the built in firewall settings. Perhaps it isn't solely
>> ZoneAlarm that's causing the issues, rather a synthesis of both? It
>> wouldn't be the first time Microsoft have embedded "security"
>> "features" which disable third party applications which serve as
>> replacements of their own.
>>
>> Disable the XP firewall if you haven't already. I don't actually know
>> ZoneAlarm all that well myself - just trying to give any advice I can.
>
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> ZoneAlarm automatically disabled the built in Windows Firewall upon
> installation. I have also checked to see if windows firewall was
> disabled and it was.
>
> I have done a google search on the matter and it seems that I am not the
> only one with this problem since updating ZoneAlarm. Seems that it may
> be something to do with SP2 also, as a lot of the search results were
> based around SP2 and ZoneAlarm.
>
> My method of fixing was to completely remove ZoneAlarm.
>
> Do you know of any other good software based firewall worth mentioning?
> I *was* a paying customer for ZoneAlarm, but finding a better, free
> option is the way I am going for all of my software, and donating as
> money permits.
>
>
>
> Yours Sincerely,
> Samuël ML Lison
>

It basically depends on how secure you want your firewall to be. I've
heard many good things about Kerio firewall. ZoneAlarm is defnitely a
highly respected solution and I would investigate into why it was
blocking what you wanted. Maybe contact ZoneAlarm - if you're a paying
customer then you're paying for their support - use it!

If you're paranoid about security and have a spare old pc lying around a
smoothwall or other Linux firewall can be fun to set up and great for
security.

Sh4d03 

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