Re: UDP errors

Hi. Thanks to everyone who contributed. I noticed the last few days I
haven't had any more UDP packets blocked from Zone Alarm. Most of the
alerts I get (I don't have them pop up by the way) are ICMP and they are
internal xxx.xxx.xxx.001 to xxx.xxx.xxx.010 or whatever. I am computer
savvy, but please excuse my slight ignorance when it comes to these issues.
Thanks again!


"Sheik Yurbhuti" <sheikyurbhuti@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Gomek" <yoo@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hi. I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything. I have a
Linksys router and Zone Alarm installed. I noticed, after I had set
everything up, there have been some alerts from ZA saying a packet
from an IP address has been blocked by ZA. I never received these
before, and it makes me think something might not be set up right in
my router? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Need more input. :)


I take it from the Subject line were talking UDP packets?

What source/destination port?

What IP? Inside your ISP's "home network" or not?

What make and model of router?

Did you change anything at all in your router's configuration?

Did you install the exact same version of ZA? Is it configured
*exactly* the same as your old copy?

For that matter, did you install the exact same version of Windows, and
patch/update it to the exact degree it was before?

My knee jerk, gut reaction without knowing anything at all except you're
seeing a warning about UDP traffic you didn't see before, is that the
"fault" lies with ZA. Something you tweaked before and haven't tweaked
since the reinstall, or possibly some minor version issue.

The good news is if it really is unwanted traffic ZA is apparently doing
its job so there's no reason to panic. ;-) Figure out what sort of
traffic it is, then deal with it accordingly. Allow it if you want,
discard it if you see fit, and enable/disable whatever levels of
warnings you're comfortable with. :)
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