Disable Zone Alarm Smart Defense Advisor??

Sincere condolences.

Yes. Remove Zone Alarm and just use the Windows-Firewall.

Yours, VB.

I'm not using Windows XP but rather Windows 2000 therefore I don't have a Windows-Firewall. Any other thoughts?

Place an external firewall box between your broadband Internet connection and your Windows 2000 box. Then remove zonealarm from your Windows 2000 box.

Your dsl modem may or may not already have firewall-like features. Open a command prompt and ipconfig /all Is your IP address 69.151.239.210 or 192.168.... ?

Jason

ICF is there, too. You could use also

Yours, VB.

Not in Windows 2000.

Better.

cu

Win2k has ICF?

I use Win2k and Kerio. I tried ZA for some users because I thought "Smart Defense" would help them answer the queries correctly, but the thing had an IQ of zero. It hardly ever knew how to set permissions for common programs.

You're probably just getting the "OS Firewall" popups. If that's too annoying for you then try another firewall. Or as mentioned, just get a cheap router to protect you from inbound and do away with the software firewall altogether. That's what I've done and I'm happy..

How about going to ZAP's Program Control / Main / Custom / then disable the OS Firewall component while keeping the rest of ZAP?

Also, my understanding of SmartDefense Advisor, which is far from perfect, is that you'll get fewer popups to resolve if you go with Automatic. With it off, any issue will require your input while with Automatic, if ZA knows what to do, it'll automatically set permissions without bothering you--won't it?

Craig

No. There it has another name :-P

Yours, VB.

No. For what reason ever, the filtering capacity of the kernel is included in what Microsoft call "IPSec".

Such filtering outbound is futile anyways.

Yours, VB.

Nope. The ICF was introduced with Windows XP. On Windows 2000 you can use the TCP/IP filter in the advanced TCP/IP settings (which is NOT available for dialup connections), you can (mis)use IPSec as a packet filter [1] (which has disadvantages of its own), or you can use some third-party software (like a Personal Firewall). Period. There is nothing even remotely similar to the ICF in Windows 2000.

No.

You can use the packet filtering implementation of Windows' kernel, which is now called "ICF", and you're reaching it under the very strange name "IPSec" with even stranger UI ;-)

IPSec has nothing to do with packet filtering at all, beside this abuse of the name by Microsoft.

Yours, VB.

You know damn well what I meant.

ICF is not the packet filter of the kernel, but the service and frontend for its configuration.

cu