Re: Zone Alarm Security Suite 6 problems...and questions
From: katie jay (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 08/12/05
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:04:04 -0400
Hi Duane, thanks for the input
I uninstalled Norton before installing ZASS
so I know that's not the problem here....
I didn;t like Norton primarily because they have lousy tech
support(read:NONE) and they didn;t do too good a job of detecting a sys
monitor that got installed.....
I never found them particularly hard to use, but Zone Alarm ZASS is another
story...
the learning curve is just too high for me I guess....
and none of their links to almost anything on any page works... and they
have not answered my questions via customer support.....soooo out they go!
I am getting a refund from them, uninstalling and then system restore back
to Norton(if it will come up). If the norton won;t come up then I will use
the Windows firewall and look into your suggestion on the NAT's.
katiejay
"Duane Arnold" <Notme@Notme.com> wrote in message
news:SkWKe.242266$x96.169376@attbi_s72...
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for me. I have done all I could think of
>> and am very close to uninstalling the whole shebang(including the two
>> little apps I bought with it..they also make big problems for me).
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> Well dump Norton then as you seem to have a lot of issues here with
> configuration.
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> If you have a DSL or Broadband connection, then get yourself a cheap NAT
> router for home usage and put it in front of the machine and let it be a
> simple firewall device that stops the unsolicited inbound threats to the
> machine. It's a plug it up and go device that needs little or no
> configuration on your part, provides instant protection from the Internet
> and will *NOT* interfere with applications running on the machine.
>
> You see that's the problem with these personal FW solutions as they ask
> too many questions and present all sorts of issues for a user.
>
> IMHO, you would be better off at this time by uninstalling Norton and
> enabling the XP FW for the time being with its default configuration that
> will not interfere with applications.
>
> You may want to use Firefox (free) as your default browser that is like IE
> but is more secure that IE and less attackable than IE. You could look at
> Thunderbird too as you email client program instead of using Outlook which
> is less attackable than Outlook, although I use Outlook. :)
>
> I don't like the suite applications like Norton myself as they have too
> much bloat and other crap that will confuse with possible
> mis-configuration by the end-user.
>
> Duane :)
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