Apart from others' good advice on this topic, I just give a bit of my $0.02.

Never give up security, no matter who told you (to disable ZA). especially
true if you have a always on connection. Even I have only dial-up
connection, I receive number of hits from the net everyday, sometimes more
than 20 times in short time. ZA did a great job to stop both unwanted
inside-out and outside-in traffic for me.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ira Wallin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:28 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] cable modem router


> I have acable modem going just fine.  I purchased a Linksys 4-port
Etherfast
> Cable/DSL router today in order to run a couple of PCs off the one cable
> modem.  So far, it does not work.  I was wondering..there is a footnote in
> one of the instructions to delete any firewall software, like Zone Alarm
> (which is what I run).  Is this safe for me to do?  Could this be the
problem?

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