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Zone alarm for newbies?

  • 28-12-2003 2:01pm
    #1
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭


    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?


Comments

  • #2
    X4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭X4


    either upgrade or uninstall it

    then a re-installation will have all settings reconfigured.


  • #3
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


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


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭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! :D

    Mike.


  • #5
    Sparky191
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭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! :D

    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.


  • #6
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭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".


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  • #7
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Specky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭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..."


  • #9
    suppafly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭suppafly


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


  • #10
    P3nfold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭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.


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