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To: mr.mark who wrote (35927)	8/22/2003 12:44:09 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

>>there's lots more i could ramble on and on about, but suffice it to say i like the firewall's configurability, and i haven't even begun to scratch the surface of 'expert' rules creation and custom port permissions. i still have to load zap4.0 on a couple other operating systems. i'm going to tweak it to my general liking here on win2000 before moving it onto winxp and win98se. i would be interested in learning what configurations and rule creation, and port permission regime you settle on..it's a simple program to use at the default settings and that is what i like about it, but would also like to see the additional functions at work and how they impact ease of use...meaning this is the type of thing i wish to avoid: order to access a site i use frequently, i have had to disable some privacy features that i had ratcheted way up, like the cookie control and the ad blocker, plus what zap calls mobile code controls, like embedded objects and mime-type integrated objects. but i turn it all back on as soon as i am done with that site <edit> i see you did the tooleaky test...go zap4! :)

To: mr.mark who wrote (35927)	8/22/2003 1:21:21 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

I'm still learning also, but have found that sites that I visit like CNET can be viewed by going to the Options button in Privacy and allowing banner ads. If that doesn't work, I then try the animation or even the pop-up but that is rare. I was disabling ZAP a lot before I discovered this. It's not really explained well for us newbies. There is definitely a learning curve and I'm just getting the hang of it after several months. I have tried several times to put the program control on high but had almost constant alerts. So I keep it at medium even though I thought I was past the program's learning phase.