Re: ZONE ALARM MESSUP

From: Pete (pete_at_terminalsurfer.dyndns.org)
Date: 12/26/03


Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 22:42:30 +0000

Kerodo , over to you ... :

>There's nothing wrong with ZoneAlarm.. I used it here for a long time
>with good results. It works a heck of a lot better than Sygate or
>Norton. It seems to be popular now to bash ZA..
>
>I use Kerio 2.1.5 now and prefer it over ZA though... But ZA served me
>well for quite a while...

Actually, that's almost exactly the same story with me. I used ZA years ago,
pre vsmon.exe resource hogging, and was reasonably happy with it. I switched
to Kerio (some newsgroup recommendation) because of the excessive use of CPU
power from ZA, and have used that to this day. ZA is good, but a lot of
folks seem to think it's the only software firewall out there.

BTW, I know that ZA is supposed to 'quieten down' after being in use for a
while, in terms of CPU usage, but Kerio worked so much better for me, that I
decided to lose ZA in favour of it.

Regards,

Pete.



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