This may be old news but yesterday's (7/8/08) Microsoft updates cause most ZoneAlarm users to not access the internet. This was driving me crazy as pings would work but browsing to the same addys wouldn't.

ZoneLabs official response is to roll back the update.

http://forums.zonealarm.com/zonelabs...l&message.id=6

You can also set the Internet Zone Security level to medium although neither solution is ideal. Some folks are jumping ship to Comodo firewall.

Anyway if you're reading this you're not affected but if another machine seems to not access the internet keep this in mind.