Hi Claudio,

I have used zonealarm in the past and if you don't install it on every workstation I think you lose the outgoing block functionality.

Your proxy software probably has a firewall of it's own, so your slowdown could be caused by having two firewalls in place. I currently am using WinProxy at work and at home and with it's firewall and antivirus I have had zero problems with trojans, worms, virus etc. Steve Gibson at Gibson Research http://www.grc.com has free software that you can use to test your firewall.

>Hi all;
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>I have an ADSL connection here in our office.. This input connection is in our Win2k server machine shared to the others (by a win ussual share)..
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>The connections of the slavers are pretty fast. But, just when the firewall zonealarm isn't there..
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>Zonealarm really lowers the speed of the connection (almost stop)..
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>Is there any special setting (on zonealarm) to deal with these occasion ?
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>The win2k server sharing, forces me to use 192.168.0.x IP adress on the slaves..
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>At zonealarm I already set the thrusted zone of an IP range between 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255.. But, the speed keeps the same..
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>TIA
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>ps: Others advices for firewall software will be welcome, at this point :)
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>Claudio