Zone Alarm - Killing Animated GIFs?

[RSLancastr]

I have recently noticed that animated GIFs are no longer animated in my browser (IE 6.0).

The only place I know where to turn this on/off is in Tools/InternetOptions/Advanced/Multimedia/PayAnimationsInWebPages (or something like that), but that does not seem to change anything.

The only thing I have done to my PC in recent memory is to install ZoneLab's Zone Alarm. Anyone aware of ZA freezing animated GIFs? All I see is the opening frame.

 

[RSLancastr]

Oops, never mind.

I had no idea that ZoneAlarm kills animated GIFs by default. I have t oturn them on for specific web sites.

Not sure I like this.

Oh well.

 

[Rat]

This is news to me. I have ZA, running at more or less default settings, and I've never seen anything about animated gifs. They still animate just fine for me.

Where is this setting?

Cheers,
Rat.

 

[Tacita]

I had this same problem. I never could find any setting that would turn this feature on or off, and I also knew people with Zone Alarm for whom .gifs were working fine.

 

[richardm]

Are you sure it's not down to a Google toolbar or something?

Edited to add Errr, no, it's just popups that stops, isn't it?

Edited again to add something after a bit of looking:

According to my Help file, if you have ZoneAlarm Pro, it has an option under Privacy > Ad Blocking > Custom > Animation to control this.

Even if you don't have ZA Pro, it might be worth looking to see if it's been added to your version.

 

[RSLancastr]

Yup, it is ZA Pro, and the setting is on the Privacy/Adblocking tab for each web page/site on your list. I don't know where to change the default, though. I'd rather it default to showing animations, and I could then shut it off for pages/sites where the animations are especially annoying.