Thanks for your answer. On 98se it worked properly. It´s on XP where is acts strangely. I will try to reproduce this behaviour. Apache is just a webserver app that has to ask for server permission like all apps with zonealarm.
It may however have happened somebody added a tunnel to my zonealarm installation, although ZA is one of the few firewalls that explicitely watches its files and prevents modification!
There may be a basic threat with all online updates (of any app): A bad person only has to DNS-spoof you and you will download a firewall update from their IP, instead of the real firewalls server. DNS is when you resolve an URL using an external DNS server that will return an IP that will be used to download the update. There was a security issue with DNS servers some time ago, but basicly it´s only a matter of power to force the DNS server owner to send fake IPs. This would surely be an option for a common product like ZA, for gestapo-like secret services of this new hightech millennium. I´m only thinking of the possibilities...
It may however have happened somebody added a tunnel to my zonealarm installation, although ZA is one of the few firewalls that explicitely watches its files and prevents modification!
There may be a basic threat with all online updates (of any app): A bad person only has to DNS-spoof you and you will download a firewall update from their IP, instead of the real firewalls server. DNS is when you resolve an URL using an external DNS server that will return an IP that will be used to download the update. There was a security issue with DNS servers some time ago, but basicly it´s only a matter of power to force the DNS server owner to send fake IPs. This would surely be an option for a common product like ZA, for gestapo-like secret services of this new hightech millennium. I´m only thinking of the possibilities...