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Zone Alarm Internet Security V7 and WSJ.com

by kevin

As a stay-at-home dad but working on web ventures, I need to be “plugged-in” to what’s going on in various financial markets. I subscribe to many newspapers and magazines to get this info, but my favorite is WSJ.com. Everything was working fine until I upgraded my firewall to Zone Alarm Internet Security V7.

The upgraded firewall some how did not see WSJ.com as a valid website (this is the error text I saw in Mozilla/FireFox browser when I typed in http://www.wsj.com):

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Server: IBM_HTTP_Server
X-DEBUG-BOX-IDENT: sbkj2kwebp07
X-DEBUG-MODULE-VERSION: DJCS mod_mon 0.7.0.0.2.1
X-DEBUG-REQUEST: /home/us
X-DEBUG-NAMESPACE: content-wsj
Set-Cookie: HOMEPAGE=remove;domain=.wsj.com;path=/;Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT;max-age=0
Set-Cookie: user_type=subscribed; domain=.wsj.com; path=/; Expires=Fri Mar 16 08:23:16 2018; max-age=315360000
Set-Cookie: TR=055055107101118105110; domain=.wsj.com; path=/; Expires=Fri Mar 16 08:23:16 2018; max-age=315360000
Set-Cookie: REMOTE_USER=*******; domain=.wsj.com; path=/; Expires=Fri Mar 16 08:23:16 2018; max-age=315360000
Set-Cookie: wsjproducts=placeholder; domain=.wsj.com; path=/
Set-Cookie: djcs_auto=pjjNoCW%2FfYv1sTZa6hGeM9mA%3DG; domain=.wsj.com; path=/; Expires=Sun Mar 17 08:23:16 2013; max-age=157680000
Set-Cookie: WSJIE_LOGIN=placeholder; domain=.wsj.com; path=/; Expires=Sun Mar 17 08:23:16 2013; max-age=157680000
Set-Cookie: djcs_session=M1Yo%2BHJYSHi8JYw%2BgwNHK8DDRQAbooyqqjIR6LwbNyQlWm7iKVuo%2BkvVePdQ%3DG; domain=.wsj.com; path=/
Set-Cookie: djcs_perm=M1205787824%2Fcxdg0QQ%3D%3DG; domain=.wsj.com; path=/; Expires=Sun Mar 17 08:23:16 2013; max-age=157680000
Location: http://commerce.barrons.com/auth/v1/login?.pd=M1205837028ttjKT6GBmYZV2P0%lSgdoIUoQG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fhome%2Fus
Cache-Control: max-age=15
Expires: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:23:31 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=43
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Transfer-encoding: chunked

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”>
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>

<script language=’javascript’ src=’http://127.0.0.1:1025/js.cgi?pca&r=25302′></script>

</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href=”http://commerce.barrons.com/auth/v1/login?.pd=M120583oQG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fhome%2Fus”>here</a>.</p>
<hr />
<address>IBM_HTTP_Server Server at online.wsj.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>

<script language=’javascript’>postamble();</script>
==============================================Reading the error log, it wasn’t clear what the exact problem was but from my limited networking experience, I figured it had to do with how WSJ.com uses load balancers with different URL addresses. After fooling around with various settings, I got WSJ.com and ZA ISS v7 to work together. To make it work, follow these directions:

  1. Close down all FireFox browser(s)
  2. Open up the ZA control panel by clicking on the ZA system tray icon (lower right hand corner of Windows XP)
  3. From the left navigation side bar, click on “Privacy”
  4. There will be three tabs on the right side (Main, Site List, Cache Cleaner)
  5. In the “Main” tab, make sure the following items are checked:
    • Cookie Control = Medium
    • Ad Blocking = Medium
    • Mobile Code Control= Off
  6. Then click on the “Site list” tab
  7. Look for “online.wsj.com” entry; If you see it, skip to step #10; if not, continue following steps
  8. Click the “Ad” button (bottom section)
  9. In the URL pop-up box, type in “online.wsj.com” then hit ok
  10. From the same “Site list” tab, find the line item “online.wsj.com”
  11. It should already have green check marks for the following items: Mobile Code, Session, Persistent and WeBugs.
  12. Move your mouse over to the “Private Header”, then left click once on the red X adn check “Allow”.
  13. Re-start Mozilla/FireFox/IE browser and you should now have access to WSJ.com!

As a matter of security, log into WSJ.com to save your cookie, then change the cookie settings to “Maximum” (step 5) to eliminate junk cookies from being set in your computer.

Hope this helps!

March 18, 2008   No Comments