atw: Re: PC protection

> Likewise, I am looking for a suitable firewall that
> is safe and wont eat up resources.
 
Paul Reti suggested Zone Alarm, which I downloaded and installed last
night.
 
    http://www.zonelabs.com/
They have a range of products they charge for, but Zone Alarm is free.
 
Obviously I have *very* little experience with it so far.  It seemed to
stomp around my system making its own decisions about its setup and
configuration, and it has a link back to its mother, but so far I
haven't seen anything that I could complain about with any degree of
righteousness.  You can even turn off the line to mother.
 
The good news is that Zone Alarm didn't slow down my PC, and that's a
big issue for me.
 
BTW, when I uninstalled Norton I couldn't make it let go completely. 
I'm sure that there's an application somewhere that does this sort of
cleansing - removing unneeded and unwanted software scraps.  I saw one
many months ago and downloaded the trial, but all it did was page
through the registry line by line, asking me whether I wanted to keep
each entry as it came along.  It gave no information about what
application the registry entry was associated with, what it did, or who
put it there.  Most of those entries are so obscure that I didn't know
whether I needed them or not, so I uninstalled the silly darn thing.
 
Allan

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