Please Help!!!

[nekeynoname]

i installed the zone alarm security suite from zone lab for a trial, and now my computer wont allow users onto the internet and the computer is lagging now. it also stated that msn is trying to monitor my ims, emails, and internet sites. how can i uninstall this and stop the monitoring of my computer?

[yurimxpxman]

Start >> Control Panel >> Add/Remove Programs >> Zone Alarm >> Uninstall. Let us know if that doesn't help. :)

[Hitman]

Zone Alarm is a great firewall. However, the intital setup can be a bit tricky. I don't mess with software firewalls myself I find them to be a PITA.

[One4yu2c]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Zone Alarm is a great firewall. However, the intital setup can be a bit tricky.

Yep, and as far as suites go, the Zone Alarm Security Suite is actually pretty decent.

[Jokerswild]

I use zone alarm for my firewall and AVG for antivirus and there pretty easy if you leave them set at the novice and don't change things.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by jokerswild

I use zone alarm for my firewall and AVG for antivirus and there pretty easy if you leave them set at the novice and don't change things.

They're also pretty useless.
I have yet to see someone hacked because he had no firewall. No, really.

[Jokerswild]

Originally Posted by polobunny

They're also pretty useless.
I have yet to see someone hacked because he had no firewall. No, really.

I don't have any useful info on my computer anyway.

[Tyreal]

Originally Posted by polobunny

They're also pretty useless.
I have yet to see someone hacked because he had no firewall. No, really.

I don't use a firewall either. Although I do use Kaspersky antivirus.

EDIT: No Paul, Not even the software firewall from SP2. Technically speaking... I do run my computers behind a firewall in my router.

EDIT: OK PAUL, STOP. I disagree that firewalls are useless. They do of course have their uses if you are not running behind a router, which alot of people do.

[One4yu2c]

Originally Posted by jokerswild

I use zone alarm for my firewall and AVG for antivirus and there pretty easy if you leave them set at the novice and don't change things.

Same here. My protection comes in the form of:

- Router w/ built in firewall
- Zone Alarm Free Edition firewall
- Windows SP2 Firewall
- AVG Antivirus Free Edition
- Spybot Search & Destroy (spyware)
- Adaware (spyware)
- HijackThis (spyware)
- F-Secure Blacklight (rootkit scanner)

Of course, the best protection is smart computing habits, such as not visiting questionable websites, limit peer-to-peer (P2P) activity rather than haphazardly downloading everything under the sun, don't execute unknown files, and so forth.

[polobunny]

Really, firewalls are a PITA.
If there's any valuable info on your computer and somebody knows about it, then you're getting hacked anyway. Else there's an infinitely small percentage of chances you get hacked by a totally bored out of his mind hacker scanning IP's for open ports. And then again, he'd have to know a flaw or something in the inside.
So as long as you don't run every executable available on the internet & open weird e-mails, you're probably never going to get hacked, because you're no use for anyone with enough knowledge to "hack" his way in.

Just my thoughts on the matter, I know I wouldn't spend countless minutes to hack someone for family pictures, if a hacker I was. :P

Protection consists of;
Windows XP SP2 Integrated firewall
AVG Free
Ewido security suite
Spybot search and destroy
Ad-aware SE
("active protection" not active on any, just a scan once in a while to be sure i'm spyware free)
HijackThis!
Task manager. :P

My router half the time is in DMZ which redirects any traffic to my computer unless noted otherwise.