Since downloading 4.25, my Zone Alarm shows almost continuos connection to Boinc. About every 2 seconds! This is happening on all 12 of my computers.

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> Since downloading 4.25, my Zone Alarm shows almost continuos connection to
> Boinc. About every 2 seconds! This is happening on all 12 of my computers.
>
BOINC Manager communicates via local http to the BOINC daemon (this is done on the local machine as well as remote machines). Zone Alarm is picking up traffic to and from 127.0.0.1 as internet traffic. This is more of a ZoneAlarm bug than a BOINC bug.

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> > Since downloading 4.25, my Zone Alarm shows almost continuos connection
> to
> > Boinc. About every 2 seconds! This is happening on all 12 of my
> computers.
> >
> BOINC Manager communicates via local http to the BOINC daemon (this is done on
> the local machine as well as remote machines). Zone Alarm is picking up
> traffic to and from 127.0.0.1 as internet traffic. This is more of a
> ZoneAlarm bug than a BOINC bug.
>

ZA is a joke. My employer dumped it because it had a habit of rebooting workstations spontaneously and I dumped it on my home network because a 'critical update' hosed the OS on one of my workstations and forced a re-image.

You might want to find a better firewall product.

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> ZA is a joke. My employer dumped it because it had a habit of rebooting
> workstations spontaneously and I dumped it on my home network because a
> 'critical update' hosed the OS on one of my workstations and forced a
> re-image.
>
> You might want to find a better firewall product.
>

can't disagree with that, but let me suggest that you turn the protections to the lowest or off setting. if you uninstall ZA, it locks all of the current settings and requires hundreds of regedits to get back to normal (i've had many of my customers tell me of such occurances, and ZA has instructions on this at their site. my router is plenty of protection, never used a software firewall myself.)

Micah

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I have used ZA for many years on many machines and never had any trouble with it at all. Are there any other free reliable firwalls?

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> I have used ZA for many years on many machines and never had any trouble with
> it at all. Are there any other free reliable firwalls?
>
Try Agnitum Outpost Firewall

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98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1 GHz Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

Sygate Personal Firewall is a very very good one to use

The Jedi Alliance - ^WarHawk^

Also try Kerio Personal Firewall 4. I have been using it for about a year now. Much easier config than ZA

I've tried the others...and I came back to ZA...it uses the fewest resources. I also use AVG antivirus for the same reason. My motherboard came with PC-Cillin.hich also had a firewall and it used 10-20% more resources than Za and AVG.

Don

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I'm wondering what happened to this 4.25 version that it's so huge. Version 4.19 is about 1.6MB and this 4.25 is about 9MB . . .

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You could use the Microsoft firewall, IF you're not paranoid about security.

> You could use the Microsoft firewall, IF you're not paranoid about security.
>
Wouldn't that be like pouring gasoline on a fire. :)

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

> > You could use the Microsoft firewall, IF you're not paranoid about
> security.
> >
> Wouldn't that be like pouring gasoline on a fire. :)

The M$ firewall, like any other firewall, is effecive when configured properly.
The big problem with the M$ firewall is that it doesn't block any outgoing traffic.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Outpost firewall is the right stuff. Just disable logging and it takes no more than 3M of RAM to run.

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> > You could use the Microsoft firewall, IF you're not paranoid about
> security.
> >
> Wouldn't that be like pouring gasoline on a fire. :)
>

You mean if used WITH ZoneAlarm?

> > > You could use the Microsoft firewall, IF you're not paranoid about
> > security.
> > >
> > Wouldn't that be like pouring gasoline on a fire. :)
>
> The M$ firewall, like any other firewall, is effecive when configured
> properly.
> The big problem with the M$ firewall is that it doesn't block any outgoing
> traffic.
>

Agreed. Not enough control on in/out traffic.

> I'm wondering what happened to this 4.25 version that it's so huge. Version
> 4.19 is about 1.6MB and this 4.25 is about 9MB . . .
>

v4.25 includes the *.pdb-files for core client, manager and screensaver while earlier this was downloaded separately.

My Zone Alarm has never given me any problems, I'm surprised by the every 2 second connection which lasts about 1 second, which didn't happen with the 2.19 version.

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> My Zone Alarm has never given me any problems, I'm surprised by the every 2
> second connection which lasts about 1 second, which didn't happen with the
> 2.19 version.
>

I used to use ZoneAlarm too Stephen. It's known to have problems after updates. I uninstalled it after it suddenly created networks that didn't even exist.

> I used to use ZoneAlarm too Stephen. It's known to have problems after
> updates. I uninstalled it after it suddenly created networks that didn't even
> exist.

I'm still using it, but the last times when an update is available, in stead of doing the update I start from scratch as I experienced problems I had if doing the update instead of making a fresh install.