Re: Zone Alarm Free blocks everything

"Volker Birk" <bumens@dingens.org> wrote in message
news:432aa02a@news.uni-ulm.de...
> DanR <dhr22@sorrynospm.com> wrote:
>> The popup said:
>> "The firewall has blocked routed traffic from 192.168.1.101 to whatever"
>> Of course that IP is my network IP address. (DHCP)
>> When I added the range 192.168.1.101 - 192.68.1.106 to a trusted zone...
>> everything became happy. Why did things work before and then they didn't
>> and now
>> they do AFTER I added the IP range to the trusted zone? Is this one of
>> the bugs
>> I've seen mentioned with the new version?
>
> Just drop Zonealarm and use the Windows-Firewall. Then you'll not have
> such problems.
>
> Yours,
> VB.
> --
> "Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
> deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
> Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"

Then you get a trojan/virus/worm that sends out masses of data from your
machine (eating up bandwith) as Windows Firewall does not block ANY outgoing
traffic.
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:08:27 2005