> As long as those errors appear together with a ZoneAlarm installation I'm going to > blame ZoneAlarm to mess with the winsock layer and break things. Luke, probably this will not satisfy you, but I really recommend using almost any other personal firewall different than ZoneAlarm - I have no problems with Kerio Personal Firewall, previously I used Tiny Personal Firewall (both free of charge for personal use). I also have heard that BlackIce is a good piece of software. Symantec software requires lots of system resources :\ So Zonealarm is probably the worst thing to be installed as a personal firewall, although it is still better than "IP traffic filter" build in Windows XP.
-- Greetings Tomasz Rojek