Zone Alarm Pro flashing in taskbar

I just downloaded a trial version of ZoneAlarm Pro.

The little ZoneAlarm Icon in the taskbar changes from ZA to a little
gauge and back again every minute or two. It's driving me crazy!

What is it doing and how do I stop it from switching back and forth?

BTW, I had an impression there is a separate ZoneAlarm newsgroup but I
can't find it. Is there one?

TIA

Louise

Louise

In article <>,
says...
> I just downloaded a trial version of ZoneAlarm Pro.
>
> The little ZoneAlarm Icon in the taskbar changes from ZA to a little
> gauge and back again every minute or two. It's driving me crazy!
>
> What is it doing and how do I stop it from switching back and forth?
>
> BTW, I had an impression there is a separate ZoneAlarm newsgroup but I
> can't find it. Is there one?
>

Somewhere in the settings there a place to turn that off.. look around.
I'm not running ZA now so I can't direct you to it, but it's there if
you look...

I don't think there's any ZA newsgroup. There is
comp.security.firewalls however...
--
Kerodo

Kerodo

In article <>,
kerodo~nospam~ says...
> In article <>,
> says...
> > I just downloaded a trial version of ZoneAlarm Pro.
> >
> > The little ZoneAlarm Icon in the taskbar changes from ZA to a little
> > gauge and back again every minute or two. It's driving me crazy!
> >
> > What is it doing and how do I stop it from switching back and forth?
> >
> > BTW, I had an impression there is a separate ZoneAlarm newsgroup but I
> > can't find it. Is there one?
> >
>
> Somewhere in the settings there a place to turn that off.. look around.
> I'm not running ZA now so I can't direct you to it, but it's there if
> you look...
>
> I don't think there's any ZA newsgroup. There is
> comp.security.firewalls however...
>
I turned off everything in the alerter settings and the flashing
continued. I then went to the newsgroup run by ZA and discovered that
several people believe there is a memory leak while using XP.

I just uninstalled it and will look at some other programs.

Louise

Louise

In article <>,
says...
> In article <>,
> kerodo~nospam~ says...
> > In article <>,
> > says...
> > > I just downloaded a trial version of ZoneAlarm Pro.
> > >
> > > The little ZoneAlarm Icon in the taskbar changes from ZA to a little
> > > gauge and back again every minute or two. It's driving me crazy!
> > >
> > > What is it doing and how do I stop it from switching back and forth?
> > >
> > > BTW, I had an impression there is a separate ZoneAlarm newsgroup but I
> > > can't find it. Is there one?
> > >
> >
> > Somewhere in the settings there a place to turn that off.. look around.
> > I'm not running ZA now so I can't direct you to it, but it's there if
> > you look...
> >
> > I don't think there's any ZA newsgroup. There is
> > comp.security.firewalls however...
> >
> I turned off everything in the alerter settings and the flashing
> continued. I then went to the newsgroup run by ZA and discovered that
> several people believe there is a memory leak while using XP.
>
> I just uninstalled it and will look at some other programs.

Wise decision.. I'd recommend Sygate 5.5 or Kerio 2.1.5.. Both are
very good...

--
Kerodo

Kerodo

In article <>,
says...

> The little ZoneAlarm Icon in the taskbar changes from ZA to a little
> gauge and back again every minute or two. It's driving me crazy!
>

It is an indication of activity which is being monitored by ZA.
Preciesely, a quote from the help file:
Your computer is sending (red band) or receiving (green band) network
traffic. This does not imply that you have a security problem, or that
the network traffic is dangerous.

> What is it doing and how do I stop it from switching back and forth?
>

I don't see a way to turn it off.

> BTW, I had an impression there is a separate ZoneAlarm newsgroup but I
> can't find it. Is there one?
>

Not a separate ZA newsgroup, but there is a fairly active forum.
Again, from the help file:
http://www.zonelabs.com/forum



--
R. Dale Shipp
dale@_delete_this_min.net

R. Dale Shipp

In article < ws.com>,
dale@_delete_min.net says...
> In article <>,
> says...
>
> > The little ZoneAlarm Icon in the taskbar changes from ZA to a little
> > gauge and back again every minute or two. It's driving me crazy!
> >
>
> It is an indication of activity which is being monitored by ZA.
> Preciesely, a quote from the help file:
> Your computer is sending (red band) or receiving (green band) network
> traffic. This does not imply that you have a security problem, or that
> the network traffic is dangerous.
>
> > What is it doing and how do I stop it from switching back and forth?
> >
>
> I don't see a way to turn it off.
>
> > BTW, I had an impression there is a separate ZoneAlarm newsgroup but I
> > can't find it. Is there one?
> >
>
> Not a separate ZA newsgroup, but there is a fairly active forum.
> Again, from the help file:
> http://www.zonelabs.com/forum
>
>
>
>
Thanks - I understand and appreciate it's function but I find it
extremely distracting to the eye and therefore, intolerable. When I
uninstalled the trialware they asked why and I told them.. But
apparently I'm in the minority

Louise

Louise

[This followup was posted to alt.computer.security and a copy was sent
to the cited author.]

In article <>,
kerodo~nospam~ says...
> In article <>,
> says...
> > In article <>,
> > kerodo~nospam~ says...
> > > In article <>,
> > > says...
> > > > I just downloaded a trial version of ZoneAlarm Pro.
> > > >
> > > > The little ZoneAlarm Icon in the taskbar changes from ZA to a little
> > > > gauge and back again every minute or two. It's driving me crazy!
> > > >
> > > > What is it doing and how do I stop it from switching back and forth?
> > > >
> > > > BTW, I had an impression there is a separate ZoneAlarm newsgroup but I
> > > > can't find it. Is there one?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Somewhere in the settings there a place to turn that off.. look around.
> > > I'm not running ZA now so I can't direct you to it, but it's there if
> > > you look...
> > >
> > > I don't think there's any ZA newsgroup. There is
> > > comp.security.firewalls however...
> > >
> > I turned off everything in the alerter settings and the flashing
> > continued. I then went to the newsgroup run by ZA and discovered that
> > several people believe there is a memory leak while using XP.
> >
> > I just uninstalled it and will look at some other programs.
>
> Wise decision.. I'd recommend Sygate 5.5 or Kerio 2.1.5.. Both are
> very good...
>
>
Hi,

I wanted to thank you for recommending Sygate 5.5. It works quickly,
unobtrusively, and...you can hide the taskbar icon from view should it
become distracting - but it isn't nearly as distracting as Zone Alarm to
begin with.

The program works very smoothly and doesn't appear to eat resources.

Note this is after I downloaed and installed the newer Norton Personal
Firewall which reulted in my system booting in 11 minutes (not
exaggerating), rather than its usual 3 minutes I guess I'm real
tired of Norton's bloatware.

I'm considering upgrading to Sygate Pro since they provide periodic
updates. Have you done that and do you think it's a good idea?

Thanks again.

Louise

Louise

In article <>,
says...
> I'm considering upgrading to Sygate Pro since they provide periodic
> updates. Have you done that and do you think it's a good idea?

I guess upgrading would depend on whether you think you need the extra
features.. I found the free version to be adequate for most purposes.

I think it's a very solid and good firewall in general. It has smart
dns and dhcp so it doesn't let anything in from servers other than your
isp's and so on. Very nice. Not all firewalls are that smart. In the
free version I think you can have up to 20 rules, so that comes in handy
as well. Logging is very good, perhaps even overkill in some ways, but
I like it anyway. Better to have too much than not enough..

All in all, I like the free version and haven't bought the Pro version,
but that is entirely up to you.. There should be some kind of
comparison chart of features on the Sygate site, so you might check that
out and see if you need any of the Pro features. I don't know how their
updates work, but I would assume that when there's a new version or
release, that there would always be a free as well as a Pro version of
it.

--
Kerodo

Kerodo

Louise <> wrote in
news::

> I wanted to thank you for recommending Sygate 5.5. It works quickly,
> unobtrusively, and...you can hide the taskbar icon from view should it
> become distracting - but it isn't nearly as distracting as Zone Alarm
> to begin with.

One thing you should be careful of in Sygate is when you give a new
program, or any program for that matter, internet access, make sure you
later go into the Applications section and look at the Advanced options for
that program. Sygate defaults to letting all programs have Server access.
This isn't the best idea. It allows inbound connections. You should
uncheck this box so your programs don't have Server rights, unless you find
it absolutely necessary. Sygate, in my opinion, should have made
this default to off, but for some reason they saw fit to do it otherwise..
That's about the only caution I would mention..

--
Kerodo

Kerodo

In article <Xns94EAC007C952kerodonospamkenny@68.1.17.6>,
kerodo~nospam~ says...
> Louise <> wrote in
> news::
>
> > I wanted to thank you for recommending Sygate 5.5. It works quickly,
> > unobtrusively, and...you can hide the taskbar icon from view should it
> > become distracting - but it isn't nearly as distracting as Zone Alarm
> > to begin with.
>
> One thing you should be careful of in Sygate is when you give a new
> program, or any program for that matter, internet access, make sure you
> later go into the Applications section and look at the Advanced options for
> that program. Sygate defaults to letting all programs have Server access.
> This isn't the best idea. It allows inbound connections. You should
> uncheck this box so your programs don't have Server rights, unless you find
> it absolutely necessary. Sygate, in my opinion, should have made
> this default to off, but for some reason they saw fit to do it otherwise..
> That's about the only caution I would mention..
>
>
Hi,

I really don't know much about this, but I knew I should have one and
that NIS was no longer acceptable.

I looked at the options for, for example, my newsserver program
(Gravity). Under advanced, I saw two checkboxes: act as client and act
as server and they were both checked.

Would a newsreader need server access? Or, for example, would Windows
Media player ever need to have server access (both boxes are checked
there as well)? I mostly use it for listening to music on my own system
or often, for internet radio.

I'm not sure I understand the concept correctly.

BTW, I did see the comparison chart and it did seem one would be more
"up to date" with it, but a lot of what it offers, is over my level of
understanding so I'm not sure.
http://smb.sygate.com/products/pspf/comparison_pspf.htm

Thanks again for your help.

Louise

Louise