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Most of the time, a single ping is nothing to worry about. A series from the same address might indicate a deliberate attempt to probe your ip address (and hence your PC) making a more determined search for open ports. Which is why I prefer the stealth approach: don't respond to any ping, and no-one can find out if there is a real live PC at your ip addres or not.
If you really want to look further, I can email you a copy of my ZA Logfile. PM me your address.
Had Zone Alarm a few years, now on two computers. Even pay for Pro. No problems. seems to get more complex with each upgrade. Maybe I am getting old!!!!!!!!!! :-*
I now use Sygate (another free firewall). The front end is not as pretty but it does the job.
wonder why...so Im sticking with the windows firewall for the laptop-is that any good?