It's the old story of balance and functionality. I also use Zone Alarm and personally I have very few applications that I 'Always allow access to the Internet' i.e. MS Word is NOT one of them, but my A/V update is. If you allow an application to always access the Internet and that app catches a virus that will use the Internet to propagate itself, you may never know...
Hope this helps. Gary -----Original Message----- From: P. O'Malley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Zonealarm Question Ok I hope that this doesn't turn into a ZoneAlarm sucks use BlackIce or a You shouldnt use Outlook debate... This is just a question that I was wondering if anyone had thought about or run into. Here is the scenario: I have ZoneAlarm Pro Loaded I am using Outlook 2000 as my mail client I have MS Word 2000 set as my default email editor I receive an email with a hyperlink I click on the hyperlink, ZoneAlarm Pro prompts me to let MS Word access the Internet I click yes and remember this answer Latter I receive a document as an attachment that is infected with a macro virus mass-mailer (for sake of this question lets assume that the virus is new and my anti-virus definitions will not catch it) Since I have already told ZoneAlarm to always allow MS Word to access the Internet will it allow the virus to access the Internet and send out multiple copies of it self? Thanks In Advance _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
