Re: New User needs Freeware Firewall ...

From: Harold (harold_deese@nnscu.org)
Date: 12/24/01 

From: "Harold" <harold_deese@nnscu.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:13:40 -0500

"Dr. Bob" <rck@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3c273e20.7882684@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> 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

Thank you for your opinion.

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