Program alerts

Application control, which generates program alerts, is the most important part of your strong outbound protection system.

Program alerts sometimes appear to ask you to give permssions to a legitimate program that ZoneAlarm doesn't yet know.

They can also protect you if, for example, a Trojan horse virus or worm on your computer is trying to spread, or if a program on your computer is trying to modify your operating system.

Program alerts ask you if you want to allow a program to access the Internet or local network, or to act as a server.

Some basics on responding to program alerts:

• By clicking Allow, you grant permission to the program.
• By clicking Deny, you deny permission to the program.

See the topics below for more explanation and helpful tips about responding to and reducing each kind of program alert.

How do you know which type of program alert you are seeing on your system? Look at the name at the top of the program alert message.

• New Program alert
• Repeat Program alert
• Changed Program alert
• Program Component alert
• Server Program alert
• Advanced Program alert
• Automatic VPN Configuration alert
• Manual Action Required alert