Question here... (duh)

I have Zonealarm 3.1.whatever-the-hell installed at home, my machine is the gateway, and the ball and chains machine is the workstation. Pretty simple, not rocket science.

Ok in order for hers to go through my gateway, I have to leave the outside network security half way down. I think its medium security, hell I don't remember the name, I just know the setting leaves your machine visible online. I don't like that.

If I raise the security to super maximum ultra high, she can't get online. Well, somehow I want to block my IP address from being seen online.

So is there a registry setting, or anything that I can install that I can disable outside pings or attempted connections on any port?

Since I can't make this work through zonealarm, I need another method, but I don't know of anything that will install on the network card to ignore ICMP, pings, or anything else.

Ideas? Suggestions? Donations?

Man! I have been trying to figure out something almost exactly like this for about a week now. I use Zone Alarm and it is pretty good for basic use. Where I have found it to fail is in setting up your own rules.

I just started using Sygate Personal Firewall (http://soho.sygate.com/products/shield_ov.htm) and it is a little better. It still doesn't allow me to do exactly what I want to do though. What I want is to be able to block application support for the web browser. You know when you install a new app, sometimes it will automatically open a browser session to their web page. That sucks! Once the browser session is open, they have your IP address, browser and system identity and quite a bit of other info. I don't like that!

About the only way I know to block my IP is to use a proxy and they pretty much suck. Either your web browsing is slow as hell or you just can't access web pages. If you find an answer to this, let me know. I'm interested in this one also.