I use AOL and wanna use ZA with it but when eva I set up ZA it never lets me view webpages. Can I set it up to use with AOL or shall I use another firewall?
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I use AOL and wanna use ZA with it but when eva I set up ZA it never lets me view webpages. Can I set it up to use with AOL or shall I use another firewall?
I was never fond of ZoneAlarm myself. The two I used were Tiny Personal Firewall & McAfee Firewall v.3.0
no dont change your firewalll....its fine...
its your isp...why are you on a o hell...
are u sure your letting IE or your browser acsess the internet ? and you are better off using agnitum outpost personal firewall u can get it here if u r interestet http://www.agnitum.com
Lol yeah AOhell, I only use it 'coz there's no cut off time unlike BT, Freeserver etc.
I too would suggest another ISP AOL isnt the best for security. Look for ISPs with long cut off times (usually business ISPs) The one i use has a 4 hour cut off period plenty enough!! I also run my server off it. I only pay £1 more than people on BT so ive got a good deal !!
personally i use blueyonder cable internet, its amazing, i have my pc on 24/7 and i only go down when my dns server screws up (i hate my areas dns server -- its really really dodgy)
--- and even that is only like 3hours in 5months :)
Its not aol its the firewall. I had the same problems with zone alarm. I could display pages threw the aol client and not regular IE. I disabled zone alarm and problem was gone. I decided to try sygate and with that it would not even let me connect [ everything was configured properly in bolth cases] So i ditched that and got outpost and I am happy with it.. No troubles at all
I don't personally like ZoneAlarm because it stays in Windows memory even when it is uninstalled (still protecting ports). For some people this is a good thing, but for others (like me) it is a bad thing because me internet connection didn't interact with ZoneAlarm so I uninstalled it. I couldn't figure out why my internet wouldn't connect even with it uninstalled until I called my ISP.
It's most likely that you don't have IE in your programs list in zone alarm. Either that or you have it there and it's not configured properly. I recently had it installed on my system (XP pro) and I found that it left port 139 wide open. So now I have sygate personal firewall, and it works fine. I'm thinking on installing WinRoute for a firewall and connection sharing; anyone use winroute as a firewall??
Well I am on AOHell right now with ZA and everything works fine. Im getting a network with dsl tomorrow so im happy. But try to loosen up the security at first and put it on medium when yu first connect. Then when your all connected put it on high. If your not connecting, check your logs and see if you can do anything in the options to change the configuration so that you can use your browser from A O Hell. If that doesn't work then you can PM for help since I've had this problem twice already.
KorpDeath? Hello? I'll leave this one up to you......
no prod AOL uses its own browser software, did u block the AOL browser by mistake, my ex-gf`s dad ran ZA on aol fine (well ZA worked :D) check you access list in ZA want to enable it,
What do u guys think of AOL doing broadband? i saw an advert on UK TV "broadband now avalible" i laughed my ass off!
Preep
Who says you have to use one DNS server? Or even better, get the latest version of BIND and run named.Quote:
Originally posted here by spirit909
personally i use blueyonder cable internet, its amazing, i have my pc on 24/7 and i only go down when my dns server screws up (i hate my areas dns server -- its really really dodgy)
--- and even that is only like 3hours in 5months :)
zone alarm does have its flaws. but it does have some use. to your info 2 your ? :)
have you chek'd your security settings. local should be med-/ internet should be set high. if u have your local set high then you can't access the webpage. aswell as in the internet setting. somthinh like that................................well most likely u have done this. jusssst thought I would zay zomthing in zone alarms favor. :)
Don't understand your problem. I switched from ZA to Sygate (both personal editions), as I have found Sygate a lot more flexible. After uninstalling ZA and cleaning its registry entries, there was no trace of it left when I re-booted.Quote:
Originally posted here by Ryan Nyquist
I don't personally like ZoneAlarm because it stays in Windows memory even when it is uninstalled (still protecting ports). For some people this is a good thing, but for others (like me) it is a bad thing because me internet connection didn't interact with ZoneAlarm so I uninstalled it. I couldn't figure out why my internet wouldn't connect even with it uninstalled until I called my ISP.
darkes>> Normal users do not know anything about reg editing or could be afraid by it.
Zone alarm was once considered Malware (viruses, worms trojans etc) for win2k systems, as it crashed so damn much.
Damn dark i had that too, and i only ever got it back when i re-installed it, or done a system restore, is that encouragin users to stick with ZA or what,
"we`ll protect, your computer in a half assed way, and make it cease to exist if u uninstall us"
Hows that for an advertising feature?
lol
Preep
Take everyone's suggestions (check your Internet settings, and ensure that you have allowed access to the necessary programs. If you don't know whether you accidentally blocked something you shouldn't have, you can always remove all of the programs in the list and require them to reask whether to be allowed or not). Also, are you using ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 or the free version? If you have the Pro version, ensure that the ad-blocking isn't enabled (or at least not set to high) and that the cookie blocking isn't enabled, for these two will keep ZoneAlarm from allowing AOL to work. Just a suggestion. I don't have AOL, but I have friends and clients who do (Why, you ask? I have no f***ing idea!) and a few had ZA Pro 3 and I found this to fix the same type of problem.
AJ