Re: Avast or Zone Alarm using proxy server?

From: James Egan (jegan_at_jegan.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:20:28 +0000

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:21:38 +1100, "Martin"
<vk2umj@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

>Gee, most people are recommending the exact opposite...... Do you work for
>Microsoft???

No. What he says is pretty much correct. It's the third party firewall
shills who say the opposite.

>
>To the OP: I also run ZoneAlarm

Now there's a surprise. Misfiring firewalls, particularly zonealarm I
might add, account for a large percentage of problem posts on the
networking newsgroups.

> and Avast and have no such problem, perhaps
>it was something else that set the proxy settings? I'm not sure why Gerald
>feels WinXP-SP2 firewall is more stable and better than ZA (or other third
>party firewalls), seems almost all other software 'experts' say not to use
>the Windows firewall - I certainly noticed more 'intrusions' using only the
>Windows firewall, problems that were stopped by switching to ZA and turning
>the Windows firewall off!!
>

I can't say the windows firewall is perfect because it too gets it's
knickers in a twist sometimes. However, it is adequate for the job it
does and doesn't cause problems to the extent of the others with all
the bells and whistles.

Jim.

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