Re: ZoneAlarm forgets settings between sessions

From: Don D. (nospam@spam.none)
Date: 11/26/02 

From: "Don D." <nospam@spam.none>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:47:41 -0500

I've also had Zone Alarm Pro lose all of its settings. My most recent
problem was with my network. I have a DSL Home Portal modem/network and
when I installed ZA Pro, I set each computer in the others Trusted Zone.
Everything worked fine until one morning when I started up, ZA kept blocking
the second computer from accessing the first and vice-versa. The settings
were correct on both computers, each having the other in the Trusted Zone
and security set to Medium.

Everything had worked up until the night before when I shut down everything.
I had to uninstall ZA from both machines to get everything back to normal.
I re-installed ZA in both machines and it worked ok for a while and then the
same thing happened again. It's just flaky. I have given up on it.

Don D.

"goriddle" <goriddle@nospam.not> wrote in message
news:o5RE9.125973$%m4.60068@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
> I've had ZoneAlarm literally lose all of it's settings, mainly programs
> allowed access and blocked IP addresses. For the time being I am using the
> built-in XP firewall and reading whatever comes up on this NG. Hopefully
> someone can comeup with an answer.
>
>
> "Rubem Pechansky" <pechansky@hypervisual.com> wrote in message
> news:d81791f9.0211260345.589ebe25@posting.google.com...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to ZoneAlarm, so maybe I'm missing something here... I have a
> > small 4-computer LAN. I use Internet Connection Sharing in the machine
> > connected to the cable modem so it acts like an Internet server. I
> > have to lower Internet Zone security to Medium because if I don't, ZA
> > blocks every attempt to access the Internet from the other machines.
> > However ZA seems to forget this setting between work sessions. When I
> > restart the machine ZA resets Internet Zone Security to High so I have
> > to re-configure it to Medium manually every day. Is there any way to
> > solve this?
> >
> > I use WinXP SP-1 , ZA 3.1.395 (free), and a 256k cable modem
> > connection in the machine running ICS and ZA.
> >
> > (BTW, do I need to use ZA in the other machines? The only direct
> > connection to the Internet is via the server mentioned above.)
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
>
>

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