Re: Zone Alarm Disconnects Router from Internet

From: Jason Edwards (none1_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 11/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:27:46 -0000

"Jock" <real_class_a2003@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:49s6o1h0jkipv51boca5i0gg3rq27ln6fb@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:30:38 -0000, "Jason Edwards"
<none1@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> >"Jock" <real_class_a2003@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
> >news:ui64o1hqhtrj9jgp2d5r2m4gagh4stmn4v@4ax.com...
> >> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:26:26 -0000, "Jason Edwards"
> ><none1@invalid.invalid>
> >> wrote:
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> >You might also want to stay
> >away from Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. Use alternatives. This
will
> >help you avoid installing malware accidentally.
>
> I don't use OE; I tried Firefox, but didn't like it. The bookmarks
> management was appallingly bad, particularly with imported favourites.

I don't use favorites in either Firefox or IE. When you find a site you want
to make a note of, simply drag the icon in the address bar to the desktop.
Then file it away in a folder or folder of folders and keep it on backup
media. Then you can be sure to find it again in another 20 years when the
site it references has long since disappeared.

>
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> > You don't need ZA, but I know it's going to
> >be hard to accept that if you've already wasted your money and can't get
a
> >refund.
>
> :o))) They won't give me a refund - I've tried. I eventually got
through
> to a support person, but this dried up after I told hime the router
> did not have its own firewall.

Perhaps you should have told them that the router does have its own
firewall. You wouldn't be any less correct than the average NAT box
marketing department.

>
> As it happens, it hasn't disconnected me for two days now. I'm keeping
> my fingers crossed. I may get a decent router one day.

I prefer to use my own equipment instead of what my ISP may have supplied if
they'd been given the chance to supply it.

Jason

>
> --
>
> Jock.
>
> I never believe anything until it's been officially
> denied. -- Claude Cockburn