Re: Why & where is Zone Alarm Plus 3.1.395 dialing out at startup?

From: MeanChildJ (MeanChildJ@Mean's.net)
Date: 02/11/03 

From: MeanChildJ <MeanChildJ@Mean's.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:38:40 GMT

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 02:03:07 GMT, "wmudd" <wcmudd@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>I recently upgraded from the free version of ZA to Zone Alarm Plus 3.1.395
>and so far I am regretting it. 98% of the time I don't want to connect to
>the internet when I startup my computer but ZA+ is giving me no choice.
>Vsmon.exe fires up Rnaapp.exe and no matter how many times I click the DUN
>cancel button, it fires it up again. So I am not able to get anything done
>because of the incessant interuptions and have to give in and allow it to
>connect to the net.
>
>The ZA+ support site gives some fairly lame explanations and unacceptable
>solutions like setting DUN to "never dial a connection". Jeez, give me a
>break. I'm a paying customer.
>
>Is there anyway, short of disabling firewall protection, to stop ZA from
>doing this?
>And I'm curious to know where ZA is connecting to anyway and what
>information it is sending from my computer. Has anyone used a packet sniffer
>on this one?
>
>Bill Mudd
>
 I upgraded to 3.5.169.002, disabled auto update and the problem
doesn't exist. Try the newest or go back to the 2.6.xxx version. ZA
doesn't phone home unless you want it to.

MeanChildJ

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