avoid the bloat?

From: lee walters (pepplewickTAKEAWAY_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/01/05 

Date: 1 Oct 2005 16:00:41 GMT

Not particularly wanting to take on the bloatware of the next update of
Zone Alarm, would it be a risk (security-wise or for an XP OS) to go
back down to a 2.1 or 3.1 version?? I just really want a decent
firewall that protects my system wihtout the tonnes of Megabytes of
memory used up. Or is there a freeware/paid for version out there
that's as good and a lower resource puller. TIA.

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