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I recently signed up for the ClearWire wireless broadband service.
ClearWire will not work while ZoneAlarm is active.
I have shut down ZoneAlarm and activated the WinXP SP2 firewall which works
fine.
Questions:
Can anyone suggest a way to modify ZoneAlarm so that it will work with
ClearWire?
Is the SP2 firewall adequate in today's internet environment? If not, what
other free firewalls should I look at? I understand that Kerio and Sygate
are not longer available.

Thank you,
Lyall Kingman

Lyall Kingman <king@sunsite.dk> wrote:

I recently signed up for the ClearWire wireless broadband service.
ClearWire will not work while ZoneAlarm is active.
I have shut down ZoneAlarm and activated the WinXP SP2 firewall which works
fine.
Questions:
Can anyone suggest a way to modify ZoneAlarm so that it will work with
ClearWire?
Is the SP2 firewall adequate in today's internet environment? If not, what
other free firewalls should I look at? I understand that Kerio and Sygate
are not longer available.

I do not know about ClearWire, but ZA is usually pretty good at asking
you about stuff before blocking it[1].

About the only problem I can think of is a problem with zones, which
*may* affect ClearWire. Hard to tell without any information, though.

The SP2 firewall only checks inbound traffic. My personal preference is
strongly towards replacing either the OS (with any free *nix) or
employing at least a NAT router before the machine itself.

If this is not an option, the SP2 builtin firewall is said to be at
least as good as a personal firewall like ZA. The configuration is
slightly less user-friendly though, and it will silently block stuff
instead of popping up like ZA and friends (see [1], though).

Joachim

[1] Which does not mean this is a good concept, see many posts/rants on
this group about personal firewalls not working at all. Basically, mouse
clicks can be faked, so relying on user input to (dis)allow stuff is not
a very good model.

"Lyall Kingman" <king@sunsite.dk> wrote in message
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I recently signed up for the ClearWire wireless broadband service.
ClearWire will not work while ZoneAlarm is active.
I have shut down ZoneAlarm and activated the WinXP SP2 firewall which
works fine.
Questions:
Can anyone suggest a way to modify ZoneAlarm so that it will work with
ClearWire?
SNIP

Firstly have you a Green Tick in Programs for the applications you are
using? If you are not sure change them to a Blue '?' then ZA will ask you
what to do. Say yes and tick "remember" setting.
That may work - if not -
As you try to get on line note the exact PC time.
Then - In Zone Alarm open the Logs & Alerts and click on the Blocked Entry
for that exact time and put it in the "Trusted" Zone.
That worked for me when my router was blocked.

Slatts

|The SP2 firewall only checks inbound traffic. My personal preference is
|strongly towards replacing either the OS (with any free *nix) or
|employing at least a NAT router before the machine itself.

NAT is a good start and anything that assists inbound, unsolicited
inputs is an assistance worth doing.

Outbound controls help confine a rouge intrusion to the machine
invected. In theory, if the inbound can be sufficiently controlled, the
outbound should never require control.

caveot emptor :)