Use a router to intercept unsolicited incoming packets, and your PC
will never see them.
Aside from the expense, how does that work? I would have to get a router
that is smart enough to dial into and log into my ISP, yes? Can routers
do that?
Although home routers are designed mostly for broadband use,
there are a few models that have fallback to dialup when a broadband
connection is not available. SMC Barricade is one that has this feature.
Granted, the price for this type of full-featured router will not be cheap,
unless you found a used one.
And how would the auto-hangup work: would the *router* handle
not thinking that a port 135 probe was activity and so do the idle-
timeout hangup properly?
Yes, I've owned four different routers, and all had a setting for idle
time-out. I don't think routers would count unsolicited packets as genuine
activity.
[and was my guess/assumption correct: that a TCP probe will be sufficient
activity to make a line go "non idle"?]
I don't really know, but given the symptoms you described, my
educated guess would be yes. Sounds like a lack of integration
between Zone Alarm and the Windows TCP/IP stack. You might try
Windows Firewall (instead of ZA) for a while, to see if it will give
different results.
Gary VanderMolen
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