Urgh...

[gothams3rdrobin]

My internet connection's been playing me up today - I even ended up calling my provider to check if there was a problem in my area...

Of course, while I was on the phone my connection came back - once the guy told me to turn off my firewall for a sec. When I hung up, I turned the firewall back on, and my connection winked off again. So I switched it off again, but that didn't sort it out.

I've since rebooted the PC, turned off the modem and router for the umpteenth time this evening (something I always do before I call the helpline, since my router does sometimes need to be switched off for a moment), but nothing seemed to help. Until I turned off the firewall again.

So I'm sitting here with, for now, a working connection, but no firewall. So I hope you'll excuse me if I just tab the pages I want to look at and vanish again...

Hopefully this'll have righted itself tomorrow...

Comments

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

Gah...that's exactly what I'm using! :-(

Any clue how to fix it? *imploring look* It's really making me nervous not having my firewall up.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Did you update XP this week, and are you using ZoneAlarm?

Edit: Never mind, read the other comment.

One of the updates, KB951748, has a wee issue with it, and if Zone Alarm is set on high security for the internet zone, you may not be able to get online.If you hit this problem, all you have to do is turn the IZone security down to medium, which is still plenty safe.

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yes, and yes, and it's sorted now *points at latest post*

I actually have ZA set to Medium anyway, and I was still having problems. Didn't want to try turning it down any lower than that.