This is a new advanced feature which detects that you can't be bothered to read the help files which come with this program or look at the many pages of support faqs at the zonealarm site. However, assuming its not idleness but incomprehension that's your problem, this symbol (red and yellow rectangle over the zonealarm symbol) is telling you that zonealarm is blocking traffic. The symbol is there because you've turned off the pop up alerts. My sarcasm is because despite not using this product it took me less than a minute to find this out.