Re: Zone Alarm- any forewarnings?

From: Kerodo (loopback_at_localhost.com)
Date: 07/24/05


Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:41:53 -0700

In article <dbtrgu$par$1@news.shlink.de>, wolfgang@shconnect.de says...
> Joe Zorzin wrote:
>
> > Anything I should be forewarned against before I install Zone Alarm?
>
> Like all personal firewalls it is useless crap, you don't need one of them.
>
> Wolfgang
>

That is probably true, but you'll have a hard time convincing most
people of it. I recently closed all ports here and disabled unnecessary
services and tightened things up and ran with no firewall at all (not
even a router) for over a month. It was great, and nothing evil
happened either. :)

-- 
Kerodo


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