zone alarm and worms

[butchergav]

Hi people, wonder if anyone can help?

After taking long enough to figure port forwarding i can do hosting
a game on worms, but only if i shutdown zone alarm.

I have gone into program control and there are 4 ticks, two in
access and two in server, not sure what else i can do
would like to have a firewall working rather than shutting down
everytime for obvious reasons..

any suggestions thanks.

[bonz]

I suppose you have followed this tutorial:
http://www.nanacide.com/wahelp/wnguide-firewall.php

Since this obviously doesn't work, try to delete all WA related entries in Zone Alarm and start the game again. ZA should automatically come up with a pop-up window where you can allow it again.

Also, when I tried using ZA with Teamspeak and other applications where I wanted to allow them on certain ports, I realized that the standard version of ZA does not have any port features.
Only Zone Alarm Pro does allow to set ports (17011 in the case of WA).

BTW, since you said something about portforwarding I suppose you have a router.
Most routers have built-in hardware firewalls, so you actually don't need a software firewall, unless you need any special features that e.g. ZA has and are missing in your router.

I myself have stopped using a software firewall since I have a router and only use an anti-virus program.