For those of your experiencing the problem with ZoneAlarm, you might want participate in ZoneAlarm 7 beta testing program. It seems like they would want to know about those crashes.
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/beta/index.html 2006/9/18, Tim McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Ah, I understand now. Also, I'm under the impression that many routers can block outgoing traffic in a somewhat rule-based manner. Might check into that. - Tim Kees Vonk wrote: > Tim McCormack wrote: >> Kees Vonk wrote: >>> I am aware of this, but have yet to find a opensource personal firewall, >>> if you know of one I would be very interested. >> You mean, besides buying a cheapo router and flashing Linux onto the >> firmware? >> >> - Tim >> > > That would still not stop malicious software from accessing the > internet. I mean personally I run linux, so it is not an issue, but most > of my friends run windows, and to stop them having to call on me all the > time I prefer their machines to have as much security as possible. They > all know now how ZoneAlarm works and know when to ask me about strange > processes trying to access the internet. Sounds like an overkill, but > just the other day I had a friend with trojan that had just been > discovered two days earlier and his antivirus was three days old, so > thanks to ZoneAlarm it was stopped from doing to much damage. > > I know this is now off topic, but I thought I better explain what I am > looking for. > > Kees > > BTW. can you flash linux onto most routers? I have a D-Link DI-504. >
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