Re: deciphering Zonealarm alerts
From: Martin Ireland (martin.ireland@gov.ab.ca)Date: 09/26/02
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From: Martin Ireland <martin.ireland@gov.ab.ca> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:10:45 -0600
Claus Erichsen wrote:
> "Doc" <docsavage20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:f0c1bc20.0209251116.14152bb1@posting.google.com...
>
>>Zonealarm advises you that it blocked access to your computer from
>>thus and so website. Yey, every time I look up an address that's shown
>>it comes up as an invalid address. How/why would a website that
>>doesn't exist be snooping on the net?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> -what do you mean with "looking up addresses"? -websites doesnt snoop,
> servers might answer traffic generated by you in the first place. If I
> scanned your computer, I would probably find that it wasnt responding, -your
> ZA would tell you that I did scan you, but you wouldnt find a webpage on my
> address, since I dont run server software or host webpages...
>
> -best tip: -turn those alerts off, set ZA to mid/high guard, and forget that
> you have it installed :-)
>
> Regards
> Claus Erichsen
> www.nettsikkerhet.info
>
>
Try installing Zonelog which will help analysing the ZoneAlarm log file.
http://zonelog.co.uk/
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