Re: Sygate or ZoneAlarm (free versions)

From: Tom McCune (tom_at_DELETE_THISmccune.cc)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 23:14:26 GMT

Mike <sweepdog@deadspam.com> wrote in news:0z3cGgAnTXIAFwu6@ntlworld.com:

> I am doing a PC rebuild Friday and was wondering what the best firewall
> to use would be?
>
> Win ME using IE 6 as a browser - mainly cos SWMBO wants to use RoboForn.
> Netscape being an alternative, but in my experience it takes forever to
> load (even on a 1.3 Ghz Athlon with half a GIG of memory)
>
> At the minute using a modem for dialup so no router etc, but will be
> upgrading to broadband later this year
>
> Using AVG anti virus, my main priority is full protection, and a
> configurable pop-up killer

I've only recently started using the free Sygate. It is working fine for
me with AVG. I don't see any settings for killing pop-ups, but as a
Mozilla user I don't have that need. I haven't used ZA since the early
days when it only had outgoing controls - that one didn't fully uninstall,
and I've heard so many recent ZA uninstall complaints, I didn't want to try
it. 

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