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To: donnacat who wrote (21827)	8/15/2001 6:43:43 AM
From: thecow	Respond to of 110653

donnacat From Langa List archives-Netscape and ZoneAlarm Q-When N6 starts up my ZoneAlarm asks me whether I want to allow N6 to be a server. Personally I don't see why N6 needs to act as a server, and I don't like the idea of any programs running as servers on my desktop PC (Security holes ??!!). Why does N6 want to act as a server? --- Jacob Thastrup A-Netscape 6 has the Personal Security Manager which acts as a secure proxy, the PSM module and local host are in an internal server/client relationship and have no outside influence whatsoever, or in other words, it is acting as a server to itself and sending no information to the Internet. The Netscape 6 Personal Security Manager must act as a local server; [but] your "software firewall" sees this and panics. The same concept is used with some ad blocking software such as Naviscope, which likes to set itself up on your machines loopback address (127.0.0.1), you will notice that your firewall alerts you with a "Will you allow Naviscope to act as a server?" message. From Zonelabs I receive an alert telling me an application is requesting server access rights. What do I do? Some applications require server rights in order to receive incoming connections from the Internet. You can assign the application server rights in ZoneAlarm's Programs Panel. Examples of these would be programs that need to "listen" for connections, such as some chat software, FTP and Internet servers, etc. Netscape's browser also requires server rights to function properly. On occasion, applications that are configured with server privileges start before ZoneAlarm, in which case they will not be granted server privilege. To resolve this situation, you will need to quit the application in question and then launch it again. Be aware that allowing incoming connections for such "server" applications will open one or more ports on you computer. These ports will show as an open ports when you test your computer with a security test program. zonelabs.com tc