Zone alarm for newbies?

RicardoSmith

An older relative has Zone Alarm on his PC, but hes forever screwing with the PC and messing up his internet connection mainly due to clicking blindly on Zone Alarms prompts. Whats a better way to protect his PC and keep it secure?

X4

either upgrade or uninstall it

then a re-installation will have all settings reconfigured.

RicardoSmith

The problem is not that the original settings are lost but that he keeps reconfiguring it when the prompts appear.

mike65

Then set it up so the alert warnings dont appear, lets face it they are of little interest most of the time...click the Alerts and Logs and select OFF.

Then tell him not to mess with it ever again!

Mike.

Sparky191

Originally posted by mike65
Then set it up so the alert warnings dont appear, lets face it they are of little interest most of the time...click the Alerts and Logs and select OFF.

Then tell him not to mess with it ever again!

Mike.

Like most users he doesn't listen. I've been telling him till I'm blue in the face. What I want now is some bullet proof way to keep it on the net, but secure from attack and protected, so that he can't muck about with it. I suppose I'm looking at setting up a user account without admin rights etc. In any corporate enviroment I've done this its been accepted that locking out users from admin rights breaks lots of websites. With a home PC thats a little harder to deal with.

SantaHoe

I think ZA Pro has a password facility, you could lock him out with that.
As has already been suggested - kill the alerts, and just have it working away silently.
While you're there, run every program that might access the net (iexplore, realplayer, wmplayer yadda yadda) and set the permissions for it there and then with the "always use this setting blah blah".

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by SantaHoe
I think ZA Pro has a password facility, you could lock him out with that.
As has already been suggested - kill the alerts, and just have it working away silently.
While you're there, run every program that might access the net (iexplore, realplayer, wmplayer yadda yadda) and set the permissions for it there and then with the "always use this setting blah blah".

Thats seems a good approach. Didn't know about the password facility. I'll have to check that out.

Specky

Like most users he doesn't listen. I've been telling him till I'm blue in the face.

Maybe a new saying will find its way into the language soon....

"Like most users, he doesn't listen. I told him not to mess with the settings until he was blue in the screen..."

suppafly

yeah just do as santa hoe says and u should be set

P3nfold

Originally posted by X4
either upgrade or uninstall it

then a re-installation will have all settings reconfigured.

No do not un-install ZA. Zone alarm holds it's settings when you un-install it. This is the only software firewall that does such a thing.