Re: The best firewall is?

From: Lars M. Hansen (badnews_at_hansenonline.net)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:35:38 GMT

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 06:00:59 -0700, Donald McDaniel spoketh

>
>By the way, anyone without content filtering in this day and age deserves
>the nasties he is bound to get. And what's the difference in the load to
>system resources by using one all-in-one software product, and using two or
>more stand-alone products to accomplish what a single all-in-one product can
>accomplish with greater ease of use?
>

I haven't had any content filtering software for 10 years, and I have
yet to get any malware on any of my computers. I have not have a virus
on any of my computers since 1992, so obviously, I'm doing something
right...

The difference is that Norton Anti-Virus 2003 (which I have paid for,
including subscription updates) uses just about 10MB of RAM. AVG uses
2MB of RAM. That's 8 MB in "savings" right there. Also, NAV2003 uses
over 80MB of disk space, AVG uses less than 25MB.

>
>Everytime I have used so-called "free" software, I have been badly
>disappointed.

Unfortunately, that probably says more about you than the software...
I've tested all the firewalls that I've commented about here, and they
all do as good a job at protecting your computer as NPF, ZoneAlarm Pro
or any other "commercial" product. Some even includes pop-up blockers
and content scanning ...

>Much of the "free" software floating around on the Internet
>is written by amateurs, with little sense of proper design concepts.

Really? You have any URLs to back up this claim? I would think the
people at ZoneLabs (now Checkpoint), Kerio Technologies, Grisoft or Tiny
Software would agree that their programming staff are a bunch of no-good
amateurs.

Lars M. Hansen
www.hansenonline.net
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"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"

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