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soupline3 Feb 19, 2015 @ 5:21am

Zone alarm VS Steam

New update from steam and AGAIN! Zone Alarm blocks steam!!

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soupline3 Feb 19, 2015 @ 5:21am

Do you have the same problem?

PETAFAKER Feb 19, 2015 @ 5:27am

no steam connections :3

Cathulhu Feb 19, 2015 @ 5:28am

I stopped using ZoneAlarm about 10 years ago, it was crap back then. Seems not much changed.

Hanomaly Feb 19, 2015 @ 5:29am

Yes that is Zone Alarm /protecting/ you because a program changed.
It is good that it does that. It does that to alert you a program changed. It does this in case /you/ didn't mean to change Steam.

Imagine, instead, a virus infected your computer and /it/ updates Steam with "infected Steam". Without a firewall, your computer will keep on allowing this contaiminated program to access to internet, potentially transmitting all sorts of things to who knows where.

Anyway... if you don't like it get rid of a software firewall. Or see if you can go into your Zone Alarm settings and tell it to ignore Steam, even if it's taken over by hostile programs.

soupline3 Feb 19, 2015 @ 5:52am

I think it's not the firewal but the anti virus of Zone Alarm.
It blocked 2 days ago steam and then after a while and an update stop blocking it.
But with the new version of steam it did it again!
I put the ZA anti virus off but it kept blocking steam so I had to desinstall ZA.
Now I use Microsoft anti virus...