Zone Alarm Alert

Since installing the latest version of ZA, I keep getting the following alert:
"ICMP Echo Request (ping)" which is being blocked bty ZA. Is this something I should continue to block or allow?

 

In my opinion unless you are part of a network, I would continue to block.

This article may help you decide: http://carolinanet.helpserve.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=70

Zone Alarm is a good firewall, but when I used ZA free version, I noticed many attempted hits on my PC. I was amazed at how many there were daily. Funny, but when I switched to Kerio4 firewall the hits dwindled to about nothing. It's almost as if ZA want's to make you think it's working overtime to protect your system. I have read in other forums of folks who feel the same way about ZA.

As I stated before, ZA is a good firewall, but I would take with a grain of salt all the stuff it lists as blocking.

If one doesn't know what is trying to connect to or "ping" their system, better to be safe than sorry and continue blocking.

This of course is just my opinion.

 

I'm going to let ZA block it and see how it goes. Thanks for the info,

 

http://www.networkuptime.com/nmap/page4-3.shtml

http://www.iwl.com/Resources/Papers/icmp-echo_print.html

 

Many thanks!

 

I'm pretty sure this is normal behaviour...
choose to continue blocking but also click the remember this setting (or similar) ie 'always block' depending on which version you are running.

 

Thanks for the input!