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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / May 2004OT Firewall Question Zone Alarm Pro 4.0
Based on the recommendations from the group during the Sasser virus incident I bought Zone Alarm Pro 4.0 (Amazon for $36.99). I installed it last night and it is driving me crazy with messages that pop up every time something tries to either get in or out. By the way, I have dial up, Earthlink, and it is frightening how often something out there tries to get into my computer! So, is it really necessary to keep getting all these interruptions, and is there an easy way to shut these things off (the messages I mean, not what it is doing to protect my system)? Thank you and have a good weekend all. David S. > Based on the recommendations from the group during the Sasser virus > incident I bought Zone Alarm Pro 4.0 (Amazon for $36.99). I installed it [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Thank you and have a good weekend all. > David S. I have ZoneAlarm(not Pro) but should be the same. Right click on the task bar icon and open the control center. Go to alerts and you can shut off the pop-up messages. You'll still be protected. Hi Dave...... I guess by seeing all the popups makes you realize just what is roaming around out there in the ether......scary, isn't it. Do as the olfart says......or the next time you get a popup to do with incoming pings, etc......not outgoing.....just tick off the box that says something like "don't show this to me again"......and it will stop the alerts. I never have them running. There are other things to tweak in ZAPro 4.5.xxx......if you want to know about them, drop me a line. I have no idea of your email address. You change that more often than I have hot meals.....grin. Btw......open ZAPro (double click the icon by the clock) and click on the Update button on the main page to make sure you have the very latest version. Cheers.....Auntie Virus. heather fig at rogers dot com > > Based on the recommendations from the group during the Sasser virus > > incident I bought Zone Alarm Pro 4.0 (Amazon for $36.99). I installed it [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > bar icon and open the control center. Go to alerts and you can shut off the > pop-up messages. You'll still be protected. > ... it is driving me crazy with messages that pop up every time > something tries to either get in or out. When I was running ZA (non-pro), there was a checkbox on these pop-ups that asked whether you wanted to see the popup again. It wasn't real obvious though. The idea is that you can tell it what to let through "unannounced".  SignatureWake PSA 3.8, 11/2003 @58yrs Biopsy positive 5% in 1 of 10 cores T1c Gleason 3+3 RRP 1/12/04 Pathology agreed with biopsy + Negative margins PSA - 4/29/02: <0.1 > ... By the way, I have dial up, > Earthlink, and it is frightening how often something out there tries to get > into my computer! ... Scary isn't it! Where I work there is a big public, visible website (http://cancer.gov). They used to configure a new computer by installing it, hooking it up to the net, downloading the software they needed onto it, and getting it ready to go. They had to abandon that approach because they found they were getting hacked before the computer was even fully configured. Now they've put all the software they need on CD ROMs, including all the firewall and anti-virus software. They load and configure everything first, turn on the firewall and the virus checkers, then hook it up to the net. |
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