I am using ZA Pro v3.yes it's old but it does what I want it to. I can't see that you ever received an answer to your original question of "Anybody here familiar with Zone Alarm setup to enable it to work with the DNS-323?"
#Zone alarm pro 2009 update
ZA Pro's behaviour as regards updates is not signficantly different to that of any other security suite - or even Windows itself - I've lost track of the number of times I've had to reconfigure McAfee enterprise to allow software to run after an update, and I have seen a Microsoft update cripple a functional system on more than one - if you use a laptop and travel with any regularity, load the free (or 30 day evaluation) version of ZA midway through the next trip and I'm pretty sure you'll see some pop ups - ZA traps more than the Windows native firewall does (at least the XP version - yes I am still running XP Pro, on a new Netbook). I would consider the problems you describe as caused by a lack of user education - going from memory there are two types of popup - one requesting user intervention (allow/disallow a connection), or a notification of a blocked attempt (which can be disabled). Online Armor Free - personally I found ZA Pro to be a fine & very usable piece of software, which is not the picture you paint of it, I used it until Microsoft brought Window's native firewall to what I considered a reasonable level of maturity, including at one point, running it on a system which provided "gateway" services to my SOHO LAN, in pretty much the same way as hardware firewalls are now used. Other firewalls you might want to consider: All these posts and we haven't helped the OP get his issue resolved.
I'm not knocking software based firewalls, just the ZA choice. The overhead, as jamieburchell mentioned is also unattractive to me. They require constant management, updates and are typically cumbersome. Granted I personally do not care for software based firewalls.
This is the kind of poop I had to deal with almost daily while supporting users who were runnning ZA. It's obvious the OP has configured his firewall correctly, and what. I am all for layered security, but for goodness sake, pick a different software firewall then. What is it we are talking about protecting here? Someone's home network running consumer grade hardware and storage, right? It's all a matter of personal preference really.
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