I don't like ZoneAlarm. I've used once to avoid EA games from crashing my pirated copy of most wanted via the internet, i didn't worked, i had to rename the exe file, and no MP races You can do precisely what Titan_addict said, or you can forward the UDP port of freelancer on windows firewall, and deactivate ZoneAlarm whenever you play FL. Now, i've forgot what port FL uses, but i'm shure that someone reading this topic knows