Re: New User needs Freeware Firewall ...
From: Dr. Bob (rck@houston.rr.com)Date: 12/24/01
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From: rck@houston.rr.com (Dr. Bob) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 14:47:57 GMT
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 08:51:14 -0500, "Harold" <harold_deese@nnscu.org>
wrote:
>Please explain why you call ZoneAlarm a virus.
Since it first came out it caused nothing but continual problems. At
first it would not load at startup. This was an acknowledged problem
that was documented on the Zone Labs web site. It never went away and
here it is two years later. That tells me that it is caused by a major
design flaw. In fact, when you delete the rule and config file it will
load but it gets progressively worse as time goes along until finally
it won't load.
Then there is the matter of recent versions (over the past 6-9 month)
causing people's machines to crash. I have been running Win2K Pro/SP2
for over a year and it has been very stable - until I updated to a
newer version of ZA. Then my machine started locking up and crashing.
With one version, acknowledged to be the worst ever at that time by
many users on these forum, my machine was crashing every hour.
Someone on these forums mentioned that ZA was crashing his machine so
I shut it off and my machine stopped crashing. Then a newer version
came out that people claimed was more stable so I installed it and
then my machine would only crash a couple of times a day. But what
caused me to get rid of it - and the reason I call it a virus - is
that the latest versions started writing ".tmp" files in the datafile
directory C:\winnt\Internet Logs.
Someone on these forums said that those files kept track of your use
applications and another said they became crosslinked with other files
and destroyed his FAT table (I am running NTFS).
How much more would it take to convince you that ZA is a virus?
Dr. Bob
"Our country's a place of limitless hopes and
possibilities, and nowhere is that spirit more
alive than in the great nation of Texas."
--G. W. Bush
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