Lets assume you're on a 24/7 connection, and you're that paranoid that someone would be targeting your machine as soon as you boot. If this is the case then get a hardware firewall.
What connection do you have? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kartik Trivedi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nicholas & Anthony McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Peter Tien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:55 PM Subject: Re: Loading the ZoneAlarm firewall early > I guess thats not the solution. > > I have been practically able to get into the machine at reboot before > zonealarm starts. Any solution? > > -kartik > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nicholas & Anthony McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Peter Tien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 7:44 PM > Subject: Re: Loading the ZoneAlarm firewall early > > > > in the configure menu there is an option that you can flag to "load > > zonealram at startup". > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Maryanne Peaslee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Meritt James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: "Peter Tien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:49 PM > > Subject: Re: Loading the ZoneAlarm firewall early > > > > > > > > > > If you only load it at startup, theoretically you are at risk for those > > few > > > seconds between booting and Windows loading. > > > > > > Maryanne > > > > > > > > > > > > "Meritt James" > > > <meritt_james@ To: Peter Tien > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > bah.com> cc: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Loading the > > ZoneAlarm firewall early > > > 11/29/2001 > > > 10:38 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Lotsa trouble. Why not just start Zonealarm, go to the configuration > > > tab and select "Load ZoneAlarm at startup"? > > > > > > Peter Tien wrote: > > > > > > > > By default Zone Alarm should start when the machine boots up. If it is > > > not then you can add a string value to the registry to start it. Add it > > in: > > > > > > > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows->CurrentVersion->Run > > > > > > > > There should be a entry there for it already, if not, then create it. > As > > > always back up your registry before tinkering. If things go bad, at > least > > > you can restore it. > > > > > > > > -pete > > > > > > > > -----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 > > > > > > -- > > > James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA > > > Booz | Allen | Hamilton > > > phone: (410) 684-6566 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
