While the Zone Alarm Security Suite is open the third (3rd) tab from the top is the "Program Control" tab. The first page that is displayed is the "MAIN" page. The main page highlights the following:
Zone Alarm Program Control:
- High - Advanced program and component control is enabled. With this setting you may see a large number of alerts.
- Programs and components are authenticated
- Program permissions are enforced.
- Programs are monitored for suspicious and dangerous behavior.
- Medium - This is the default setting.
- Advanced program control is disabled.
- Component learning mode is active.
- Programs are authenticated; components are learned.
- Program permissions are enforced.
- Programs are monitored for dangerous behavior.
We recommend that you use the Zone Alarm Program Control Medium security setting for the first few days of normal Internet use after installing Zone Labs security software. After a few days of normal use, Zone Labs security software will have learned the signatures of the majority of the components needed by your Internet-accessing programs, and you should raise the Zone Alarm Program Control level to High.
- Low - Not recommended for first time users!
- Advanced program control is disabled.
- Program and Component Learning Mode is active.
- No program alerts are displayed.
- Off - Not recommended at all!
- No programs or components are authenticated or learned.
- No program permissions are enforced.
- All programs are allowed access/server rights.
- All programs are allowed to perform suspicious and dangerous behavior.
- No program alerts are displayed.
The next section below Zone Alarm's Program Control is now the SmartDefense Advisor. Zone Alarm's SmartDefense Advisor has three settings that protect your PC from would be security breaches.
Settings are as follows:
- Auto - In Auto mode, SmartDefense Advisor automatically implements the recommendation returned from the server. Program Control must be set to Med. or High to set SmartDefense Advisor to Auto.
- Manual - In Manual mode, you will receive Program alerts when programs request access and can set the permission on your own.
- Off - SmartDefense Advisor will not contact the server for program advice.
The very last section of the main page on Zone Alarm's Program Control tab is the Automatic Lock. The automatic Internet lock protects your computer if you leave it connected to the Internet for long periods even when you're not actively using network or Internet resources. When the lock engages, only traffic initiated by programs to which you have given pass-lock permission is allowed. All traffic to and from your computer is stopped, including DHCP messages, or ISP heart beats, used to maintain your Internet connection. As a result, you may lose your Internet connection.
You can set the Internet lock to engage:
- When your screen saver engages, or
- After a specified number of minutes of network inactivity.
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