Re: Fred Langa rates Sygate Pro 5 as #1 - dumps on Zone Labs!

From: Chris Severance (sNeOverSPaMch3ONE@hotmail.com)
Date: 04/18/02 

From: Chris Severance <sNeOverSPaMch3ONE@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:50:20 -0400

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:28:42 GMT, Milo Minderbinder
<jvoight@catch-22.com.bs> wrote:

>---start quote---

>In its zeal to protect users from all manner of Internet nasties, the
>folks at ZoneLabs gave the new version the ability to block cookies,
>ads, and "mobile code" (meaning scripts, embedded objects, and such).
>The concept is fine, but it works too well. When you engage the new
>features at high security levels, only the most-plain-vanilla Web
>pages work.

You don't know how wonderful blocking cookies is. Hotmail for example
required all sorts of security holes to be open to be able to surf it.
Then, it all disappeared. Foolish me! I thought that they had a sudden
security fit. Turns out I had them all wrong. They probably changed it
because of all the Zone Alarm user complaints.

I may dislike Zone Alarm but if it can stem the tide of worthless
online gadgets then it is worth promoting and paying for even if I
never use it.

>That's annoying as a Web user, and it's horrible as a site owner. As
>soon as ZoneAlarm Pro 3 came out, I immediately saw an increase in
>customer-support issues from the Web sites I manage.

That's because the web pages are made by an idiot who thinks that cool
features are good.

>Many ZoneAlarm
>Pro 3 users could no longer log on to password-protected pages.

I bet the standard password technique that everyone should be using
still works.

>They
>couldn't use script-based Web forms.

YAY! Get rid of these slimy things.

>And they couldn't even download
>harmless software that was offered by a redirection link embedded
>within a page (to start a download automatically, several seconds
>after the visitor reaches the page).

I hate these too. If I can't right click and get a valid link I can
copy to a real program then I don't want it.

>I also saw a noticeable drop in banner-ad revenue, which I assume was
>from as ZoneAlarm Pro 3's preventing the normal display of ads.

I run with pictures off.

>It seems to me that the folks at ZoneLabs simply went too far this
>time and developed a good product past its optimum level.

I can only hope that it is too late, the damage... I mean the fixing
has been done and is here to stay.

>The basic version of ZoneAlarm lacks the overly aggressive privacy
>features and lets most Web sites operate normally. Although it lacks
>features such as the built-in log analyzer, its lower cost may make it
>a better deal than the pro version.

Apparently the paying world doesn't share this view. My vote is for
"turn the crap off."

>---end quote---

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