I need help with Zone Alarm it is blocking my chatroom thing on Frostwire and I don't know how to stop zone alarm from blocking it. The program is in the allowed list but it still blocking the caht on Frostwire. I know it is blocking it because it says on the chatroom, "chat blocked by Zone Alarm". Can anybody help?

Lourix

I'm not too familiar with Zone Alarm but I do use Norton Personal Firewall and these two firewalls have similar functions.

Now, what I have noticed with my firewall is that although I can put in a URL in it's "allowed list" if within that web page there is a redirection to another webpage with a different URL my firewall will not allow that page to be loaded onto my PC. I guess that function is there to protect you from being auto-directed to a malicious web page by a criminally minded miscreant.

Therefore, you have two options:

1) Find out what the intervening URL is for your chat room.

2) Temporarily turn off your firewall.



UK Bob

1) How?
2) I done it before this post and I think it has something to do with ports but still not sure I am running XP firewall now.

Lourix Espana

Is it working ok with XP firewall only running? Normally if running ZA firewall, you should disable XP's firewall from the control panel.

I'm not sure which port the chat rooms run on but I'd have presumed it would be the same as FrostWire uses, otherwise the devs should have warned us about this. Go to FW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewall & see what port is listed. I have no problems connecting to the chat rooms & I use port 6346.

ZoneAlarm blocking IRC Fix

suggested we chat using the IRC tool. I did some research, downloaded a client, and figured out how to configure it, but then when I tried to connect to a server, I kept getting a message that Zone Alarm was blocking it

1. Open Zone Alarm.
2. Click IM Security.
3. Click the Advanced button.
4. Unclick the Block IRC check box.

That's it. Worked like a charm.