I had been using Zone Alarm regularly for about a year and had no problems. But recently I installed WallStreetCity ProStation, which collects and displays real-time stock market data. Zone Alarm slows this application down to a
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I cannot use the two together. It also seems to interfere with on-line banking sites that I connect to using Quicken. So I often zap Zone Alarm when I'm on the internet, because of the way it slows things down.
Sounds like a configuration problem -- you need to set it to allow certain trusted sites to have access. (That might require the Pro version; see if yours supports this.)