I have the free Zone Alarm running on XP SP2.
Lately, it is blocking all traffic. A clean re-install has not fixed the problem.
This seems to happen only when I re-start the system from a hibernation.
When I re-start the system, all traffic is normal.
The funny thing is that in the past, a re-start from hibernation never caused this problem.
So it is not just Zone Alarm alone, but probably some other change in configuration that has caused Zone Alarm to do this. That is, Zone Alarm being active is a necessary condition for preventing the traffic, but not a sufficient condition for blocking traffic.
There is no apparent virus infection, as reported by Symantec.
Does anyone have any ideas?
A WinXP registry mess?