Re: Which is better Zonealarm or Tiny Personal?

From: Dr. Bob (rck@houston.rr.com)
Date: 12/19/01


From: rck@houston.rr.com (Dr. Bob)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:20:07 GMT

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:35:22 GMT, cardiac <dipsey-doodle@shaw.ca>
wrote:

>>:) I also don't recommend ZA because they ar working with
>>:)Broderbund/Mattel, a major spyware manufacturer. Although I've yet to
>>:)see proof that ZA deliberately has a backdoor to allow ZA to
>>:)"overlook" connections to Broderbunds' brodcast.net spyware service,
>>:)it is still a severe conflict-of-interest.

>To say nothing of it's collusion with Linksys routers (how good NAT
>protection with this setup?)

All Linksys does is let the user decide whether ZA is running. The
user can disable that if he wants. I would imagine that Linksys will
implement that feature for all the major PFs in the future.

>and it's forced collusion with Mickeysoft
>if they want to be XP compliant.

Every major vendor of Windows S/W has to pay the piper.

Dr. Bob

--
"Good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad judgment."



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