For those of you using ZoneAlarm who installed the windows updates
today, you probably already know that your internet connection has
died. It appears that KB951748 made changes to the networking files
that ZA doesn’t see/recognize.

After two hours of messing
around, I found an inelegant solution that will work temporarily …
set the Internet Zone Security permission slider from high to medium. The connection will be restored.

I
discovered this after I finally figured out ZA was blocking my internet
connections, and turned it off. Once everything worked again as normal,
I started playing around and hit on this lowered permission setting.

I imagine the ZA forum will be full of better solutions, but thought this would get you back up and running in the short term.

Another fine kettle of fish brought to you by Billyware! And yes it is a bug that really is a pain in the rump.