q3 arena and zonealarm

[meister]

quake hard locks as soon as I click multiplayer. It works fine if I disable zonealarm.

Any thoughts? I have quake enabled in ZA to be able to access internet.

Mark

 

[Soccer55]

Did you enable it to allow a server too? Anything involving an application sending data over the internet is considered a server in ZA. Try enabling that if you haven't already. If you already do have it checked, maybe someone else here will know what to do.

-Tom

 

[meister]

I clicked on allow server, but still hard locks.

Exit ZA and everything works, hmm, don't really want machine bare open to the world.

Mark

 

[yllus]

I have a slightly different version of this problem. ZoneAlarm 2.1.25 will simply not allow me to host a server while it's running, though everything loads just fine. I've set it up to allow servers and connections as well, but no go. Shutting ZoneAlarm down fixes the problem.

Hard locks sound like as if the little window asking if you'd like Quake 3 Arena to be able to access the Internet comes up but you can't see it. Make sure Q3A has the always-allow selections set and give it a whirl?

 

[konichiwa]

Your computer won't be "bare to the world" -- it's not as if ALL available entries are open to hackers if you don't have a firewall. You'll be fine for a few hours while you play Quake.