Re: black ice usage question

From: Lazy Senior (spamnolazysenior_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:02:42 GMT

RB wrote:
> I've used Tiny Personal Firewall, Kerio, and Zone Alarm. I like all of
> them. I felt Zone Alarm was the least user friendly to my newbie lack of
> expertise. But, I had reasonably good results from all.
>
> A guy has been after me to switch to Black Ice. Any compelling reasons for
> or against me making this switch?
>
>

I too am a newbie when it comes to firewalls and have been doing the
same thing you have been doing - trying them all out.

I trie Black Ice but it failed miserably when I ran some of the firewall
security checks at various web sites. this scared me and I put Zone
Alarm back on.

But hey it dont cost anything to try it out. Check it out and then do
some of those security checks, it might scare you too to be not protected.

newbie senior

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