Re: ZoneAlarm ver 2.6.362 > Watch Out
From: -Lone_wolf- (-Lone_wolf-@HOLD_THE_SPAM_excite.com)Date: 12/10/01
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From: "-Lone_wolf-" <-Lone_wolf-@HOLD_THE_SPAM_excite.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:53:49 GMT
I dropped ZA a while back for Sygate and have not had one problem since.
www.sygate.com
and I found it a little more user friendly then TPF.
John
"Dr. Bob" <rck@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 01 Dec 2001 17:58:54 GMT, "Tony P." <noone*@adelphia.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Thanks. But I already tried this and got the same results. I may have to
> >uninstall the new version and go back to the previous rev.
>
> Save yourself a lot of agony and get TPF. Just use the default options
> when it comes time to build the rules for an application. It is just
> as easy as ZA. And it works properly too.
>
> I have been running TPF for a short time now - about a week - and it
> has not crashed or fussed once. I hardly know it is in there except
> for the brief (~1 sec) spash screen that lets me know it is loaded at
> startup. Yet when you need to configure special rules, the capability
> exists.
>
> TPF is the second most widely installed personal firewall and likely
> the most supported by technically-qualified people. There is a forum,
> a mailing list, etc - so support is available. But you won't need any
> support for regular use.
>
> ZA builds ".tmp" files in the datafile directory that catalog the
> files on your disk. Unless you install a second firewall to catch ZA
> phoning home (and I am not saying I know that it does), you will not
> know if that information is being used for diagnostics. Remember that
> the best possible trojan is a firewall.
>
>
> Dr. Bob
>
> A consensus means that everyone agrees to say
> collectively what no one believes individually.
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