Re: Windows XP2 Firewall or Zonealarm is CRAP

From: -=| \(ēLē\) |=- o=[:::::::::::::::ģ (rat-slayer_at_sanity.org)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:35:16 GMT

"gaia" <gaia@nospmahere.com> wrote in message news:aFO8d.16119$5O5.9653@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
| I've used ZoneAlarm for a couple of years now and a number of others. The
| best I liked was Agnitum's Outpost but it kept crashing the new PC I
| purchased in February as apparently it couldn't handle the Hyper
| Threading...I eventually determined this via a Google search which turned up
| the solution on a German newsgroup (and as I don't understand German I had
| to use AltaVista's Babelfish). Three weeks of Blue Screening has turned me
| off Outpost for life, which is a pity as it was a very elegant product.
|
| The XP SP2 firewall only stops traffic one way so whilst it's better than
| nothing it's not a patch on ZoneAlarm.
| ----------------------------------------------------------------
| "Phil" <ph105@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| news:41639c50$0$54805$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
| I have just updated Windows XP Home Edition to Service Pack 2 on my home
| computer. I also have the free version of Zonealarm installed.
|
| Can anyone recommend which firewall I should use XP SP2 firewall or
| ZoneAlarm? Is there a better solution than either of these.
|
| Thanks
|
| Phil

Zone Alarm is resource hungry crap.
I regret buying it.

It gets bigger in memory the longer it's running
and gets slower & slower as it does so,
especially if you use P2P software like eMule.

It sometimes even starts blocking ports that I've
specifically told it *NOT* to block, and it's
'expert rules' are often ignored for some
stupid reason that makes no sense.

Since version 5 it's even more resource hungry & slower... It's CRAP.

Sygate personal firewall is FAR BETTER in so many ways.

Hope this helps.

Regards.

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