zone alarm

[marieandgordon]

i know this is not a helpsite for zonelab but i dont understand their website! can any help me, over the weekend on my pc ie and firefox would not find their homepages, or any other websites, i thought it was the actual connection but windows live would work. the only way to access them was to turn off sone alarm, no settings had been changed and it had not prompted me to allow or deny anything, we have been using for over a year with no probs. i uninstalled and installed again and it worked for 2 days and has started doing the same again, we are having no probs with zone alarm on the laptop and i have compared settings.  anybody got any ideas?

thanks
marie

[Spiritsongs]

   Hi :

     The recent version(s) of Zone Alarm firewall seems to have
     recurring problems, at least for some Users . Perhaps it
     is time for a different but FREE firewall !? There are
     several listed in the firewall "section" at :
     www.filehippo.com .

[DavidR]

What version of of Zone Alarm, Free or Pro ?
What error messages are you getting when you can't access a web page ?

ZA has a nasty habit of forgetting its settings for a program that has permission to connect to the internet. Find the entry for ashWebSv.exe, avast Web Shield in the program section of Zone Alarm and delete it. Connect again to the internet

[Lisandro]

Freeware firewalls:
http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests_overview.php
http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/firewalls.shtml
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=22742.0;topicseen