zonealarm question

Not strictly on topic, but it arises BECAUSE I've moved to Broadband and
want to up security.

I have a wireless network at home between two computers using a combined
modem router. Both computers use Win XP

Obviously the router has it's own firewall, but I want Zonealarm running as
well.

Is there a way of making Zonealarm start before the network connections are
made, to ensure safety straight away?

Cheers

"Me again" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:41b5d777$0$9357$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Not strictly on topic, but it arises BECAUSE I've moved to Broadband and
> want to up security.
>
> I have a wireless network at home between two computers using a combined
> modem router. Both computers use Win XP
>
> Obviously the router has it's own firewall, but I want Zonealarm running
> as well.
>
> Is there a way of making Zonealarm start before the network connections
> are made, to ensure safety straight away?
>
> Cheers
>

I have zone alarm on my machines, they boot up with zone alarm as part of
the auto startup. NAT and SPI in the router protect the system before a
computer boots.

Peter.

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:16:46 -0000, Me again wrote:

> Not strictly on topic, but it arises BECAUSE I've moved to Broadband and
> want to up security.
>
> I have a wireless network at home between two computers using a combined
> modem router. Both computers use Win XP
>
> Obviously the router has it's own firewall, but I want Zonealarm running as
> well.
>
> Is there a way of making Zonealarm start before the network connections are
> made, to ensure safety straight away?
>
> Cheers

Zonealarm does start early in the boot process, it has a driver that you
don't see. The systray icon is just for management of ZA. Anyway, as you're
behind a router you'll be perfectly safe while your system boots as nothing
is likely to get through NAT or the routers firewall.

Regards

Bill

thanks guys - reassuring!

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:16:46 -0000, "Me again" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Is there a way of making Zonealarm start before the network connections are
>made, to ensure safety straight away?

Zonealarm has a service component which starts before the network
services - AFAIR the network services are made a dependency of it. All
that starts when you login is the GUI.