Re: New User needs Freeware Firewall ...

From: ßill (whickok@rochester.rr.com)
Date: 12/24/01 

From: ßill <whickok@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 20:56:23 GMT

 OnMon, 24 Dec 2001 13:08:36 GMT,I thought I heard rck@houston.rr.com
(Dr. Bob) belch the following:

>On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 07:54:36 GMT, ßill <whickok@rochester.rr.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Try ZoneALarm, iit works well for most folks, www.zonelabs.com
>
>Stay away from that virus.
>
>Get TPF or Outpost.
>
>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

I have never had a problem with ZA in the time (over a year) that I
have run it. Outpost looks promising, but I don't generally mess with
beta software as it is always buggy and has holes until the relaese
candidates and even then ( Windows XP) holes are missed. If ZA is a
virus, why doesn't Norton catch it?
ß

Atheism: A non-prophet organization.

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