PS You have probably just disabled Zone Alarm by adding the router to its trusted zone. Make sure your router is running a firewall as well... it probably is. It's a Linksys WAP54G, IIRC, and should be running a firewall.
What ZA should still be protecting me against is (a) things that try to dial home from my machine and (b) nasties on other machines on the network, so inside the router's firewall, such as visiting laptops &c.
Hmm. Stuff from outside the network should still have its original IP address in the From field, I'd have thought, so would be bounced by default. Must read up on this stuff... [fx: opens Networking for Dummies]
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It's a Linksys WAP54G, IIRC, and should be running a firewall.
What ZA should still be protecting me against is (a) things that try to dial home from my machine and (b) nasties on other machines on the network, so inside the router's firewall, such as visiting laptops &c.
Hmm. Stuff from outside the network should still have its original IP address in the From field, I'd have thought, so would be bounced by default. Must read up on this stuff... [fx: opens Networking for Dummies]