I need to turn off my Zone Alarm firewall temporarily to see if it is interfering with a program I need to use. But when I go into the program I don’t see any obvious way of disabling it temporarily.
I’m using Zone Alarm 7.0.337 on Windows XP.
Right click on the icon in the taskbar (by the clock); you should have an option that says “shutdown ZoneAlarm” or something similar.
Right-clicking. How could I forget to right click? :smack:
Thanks.
Huh, that’s strange. Well, if that option isn’t available, you can shut it down via the Task Manager. Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL, click the Processes tab and scrol through the list of running processes to find zlclient.exe. Click that to highlight it, then click the End Process button. Click OK on the warning dialog which follows.
ETA: I see the problem has been resolved.
You actually can’t close it by killing the process I have tried. Its protected and will not allow itself to close that way.
Looks like you’re right. The older version of ZA used to pop up the “Are you sure you want to exit Zone Alarm?” dialog when you killed the process. Now it just won’t let you do it at all.
If you open the application from the programs menu, you should be able to close it down from there. Sorry, I don’t have XP or Zone Alarm on my new computer so I’m going from memory but there should be a window to configure the application as well as shut it down.
I believe that, worst case scenario, you can use EndItAll to kill ZoneAlarm (along with just about everything else.) EndItAll is a very helpful program for killing processes for troubleshooting or the like.
And it’s free.