Have you tried bypassing zone alarm during the account process?  IIRC 
there is an option in zone alarm to turn it off, something like allow 
all internet activity.

I'm running v3.7.xxx. As I said, I tried turning off all the filtering, and yet,
with "privacy advisor" on, I still see that it is blocking cookies. I'm rather
leery about shutting down ZA, as my ISP has tons of compromised hosts, and see
several hundred probes and attacks per day (from local IPs). As far as I know,
this version of ZA doesn't have a bypass option. And before somebody tells me to
upgrade, as I recall, v4 isn't compatible with NT4.

In fact, unless zone alarm is functioning as your proxy you should be 
able to simply exit, register your account, then restart it when you are 
finished.  That way you will know for sure if ZA is causing the trouble.

On a related note, I hope ZA is not your firewall.  It is somewhat 
functional for stopping outgoing traffic (but programs CAN bypass it and 
talk directly to your network driver) but useless on incoming traffic. 
All it does for incoming is open ports that are not normally open anyway 
and report traffic on them.

Routers are cheap these days.  If you are on broadband - get one.

I'm on dial-up. A router seems like a little overkill to me (although as you
say, ZA isn't the most capable piece of software out there). Despite the
filtering being turned off, ZA actually reports that it's filtering other sites
too, like NYTimes, and a few others. Strangely, other sites work fine.

Ah well. This filtering thing is really starting to annoy me. A friend's company
is selling off old systems. Maybe that's a good excuse to dump ZA & upgrade to
something that works.

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