Re: Best to use Zone Alarm or Avast for email protection?

From: Wattsville Blues (nothing_at_nothing.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:57:16 +0000 (UTC)

Franklin wrote:
> I run Win XP Pro. I use Eudora as my email program.
>
> I have got Zone Alarm as a firewall and Avast as an anti-virus
> program.
>
> Either Zone Alarm or Avast can be configured to check for email
> attachments as they are downloaded. But enabling both makes it
> very slow to download emails.
>
> Which of the two is it better to use for checking email attachments?

Well ZoneAlarm (versions without virus scanning) just block certain file
types from running easily, so you'll want Avast running to actully
verify downloads as safe. The ZA Security Suite with AV Scanning is, in
my experience, far far too heavy on system resources. 

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