>> I would like to have [ZA] loaded as soon as possible... A potential weakness of Zone Alarm is during that period of time before it starts up. Zone Labs even states in their documentation that programs that connect to the internet before ZA starts up may not be blocked by the firewall, which is why they suggest that you to set it to start automatically on bootup (from the ZA control panel). That is fine, but what is to prevent another app from starting before it (even when you do have ZA in the startup group) and begin malicious data transfers that ZA might therefore not be able to report to the user?
Is there any way to force Windows to start applications in a particular order? Does HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run have any ordering switches and/or does some other Windows start-up mechanism have priority over this group? The registry entries appear in alphabetical order, but do they start that way? I know I read about this earlier in the year as a possible vulnerability with ZA, but I can't find it right now. The write-up didn't offer a solution though anyway. -----Original Message----- From: Poole, Clifton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:04 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Loading the ZoneAlarm firewall early Hello, I would like to have my personal firewall loaded as soon as possible when my 2K box boots up. I have searched the Zone Labs for a command line options but could not find anything. What is available in 2K? Do I use the win.ini file to load it? This seems simple to do, but I can not figure it out. Home _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
