ZoneAlarm Pro query ?

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Andy100

How do i get ZoneAlarm Pro (registered) to stop asking me is i want to
download xxx.dat (where xxxx is letters), quite often just as i open a web
page (even happens when i open argos website, o2 etc), i get the pop up box
saying 'do you want to open fjsk.dat ?'. fjsk in this example, although it
can be any series of random letters ?

I just want ZA Pro to automatically NOT download these (anything with .dat
at the end), are there any filters in ZA Pro i can set, i have looked and
looked but cannot find how to do it.


Cheers
Andy
 
Open Zone Alarm Pro. Click Security Click Internet Customise Button Click
MailSafe Tab Scroll down until up find "something" (*.dat) and untick it.
Then click apply
Be careful as Zone Alarm might just be stopping something unpleasant from
entering your computer. Has this just started? Have you run an up to date
virus program etc.?

GrimReaper
 
Andy100 said:
How do i get ZoneAlarm Pro (registered) to stop asking me is i want to
download xxx.dat (where xxxx is letters), quite often just as i open a web
page (even happens when i open argos website, o2 etc), i get the pop up box
saying 'do you want to open fjsk.dat ?'. fjsk in this example, although it
can be any series of random letters ?

I just want ZA Pro to automatically NOT download these (anything with .dat
at the end), are there any filters in ZA Pro i can set, i have looked and
looked but cannot find how to do it.


Cheers
Andy
Click to expand...

Look in Alerts and Logs and under the Advanced tab.
Not really sure why ZA is alerting to a .dat file, though.
 
GrimReaper said:
Open Zone Alarm Pro. Click Security Click Internet Customise Button Click
MailSafe Tab Scroll down until up find "something" (*.dat) and untick it.
Then click apply
Be careful as Zone Alarm might just be stopping something unpleasant from
entering your computer. Has this just started? Have you run an up to date
virus program etc.?

GrimReaper
Click to expand...

I don't believe that the .dat ext is one of the extensions listed in
MailSafe.
 
This has started happening in the last couple of months, i just want ZAPro
to NOT allow the .dat to download, it doesn't affect the system in any way
when i click 'No' to not allow download, so i cannot see what the file can
be (malicious/spy ????). I'd rather not have to keep clicking 'No' though,
as this is starting to become a right pain, seems to happen mostly on
opening a website, although not all the time !

Cheers
Very Confused !
 
Have you tried the ZoneAlarm Support Forum. You might get your question
aswered there.

Happy Holidays!!!
 
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