Zone alarm: Enable ports - how it works
If you use the zone alarm firewall, you have to open certain ports in some programs so that they can access the Internet. We'll tell you how this works in this article.
Release ports for zone alarm
Zone alarm usually reports as soon as a program wants to access the Internet and automatically sets up all ports. So you don't have to worry about anything. However, you can still manually release ports:
- Open Zone Alert and click on "Firewall".
- There you select the entry "Security for the Internet Zone".
- Then click on "User-defined" and enter all the ports you want to release.
If you are using ZoneAlarm, you should switch off the Windows Firewall so that the two programs do not get in each other's way.