[RESOLVED] Potential Problem

[gep]

Hello all, have a message come up saying, cftmon.exe is trying to communicate with Internet explorer, and the same with CCleaner.

Zonealarm asked for permission for it to communicate with I.E.
Ccleaner, Threatfire as well asked for permission for it to work with cftmon.exe.

Only started after Installing Zonealarm pro.

Is it normal for the above and maybe others to want to communicate with the above .exe??

Is it to do with Z.A??

Any ideas.

[Steve R Jones]

Zonealarm asked for permission for it to communicate with I.E.

With IE or the Internet aka go outside your local pc to the rest of the world?

The cftmon.exe process is a component used in MsOffice to perform language related functions.

[Train]

When the website is written in Word and all the word garbage is there, you can get some weird reactions from Word.

[Broni]

Read below. If it applies to you, get rid of cftmon.exe....

Download, and run CTFMON-Remover: http://www.gerhard-schlager.at/en/pr...ctfmonremover/
The CTFMON-Remover helps you removing the annoying CTFMON.EXE from your Windows operating system. The program is easy to use and displays whether the CTFMON.EXE is installed and running or not. If it was found then you can remove it within seconds. Just in case that you need the CTFMON sometime in the future there is also an option to restore the original one.
Note:The CTFMON.EXE is among other things responsible for changing the language schema of your keyboard (e.g. for switching between the German and English keyboard layout). So in case you are using this feature you shouldn't remove or disable the CTFMON.EXE!

[gep]

Hello Broni, Train, Steve, thanks for your replies, i'll leave it there if it's not a problem.

Thanks again, GEP

[Welshjim]

gep--Good choice. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599
Getting back to your original question. If you just recently installed ZAPro, and the messages you are getting are in a ZA window, it, like any newly installed firewall, is asking your permission for the named program to access the internet. You have to teach ZA what permissions are OK and what are not. Any settings you had from an earlier firewall are no longer being used. I think there should be a box at the left of the ZA window to check whether you want the "Deny" or "Allow" to be Default in the future. Check it and you will no longer be asked for permission for that program.