Hi Glenna, Memory is important but not the only thing that will affect resources. I used to run zone alarm on 98SE and M E and running zone alarm never dropped my system resources more than 7 or 8 percent. I can't imagine it dropping yours 30 percent. I'm not doubting that you are giving the facts but it sounds like it would be a good idea to go to sygate or another firewall program until you can actually move up to windows XP, which handles resources better than 98. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenna Burgess" <purnplay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "hnl" <helpneededlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:22 PM Subject: firewall and resources Hi, I need some help and information, please. Presently I am running jaws 5.0884 and windows 98se, and I have 512mb of memory. I have about fifteen essential programs running in the background. I tried to add a fire wll program called Zonealarm, with all that my resources are %78 free. After I installed Zonealarm, it went down to %48. I know I should have a firewall, but when I got more memory, I thought it would help. Please help. "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference." MSN Messenger and AIM screen name: earthmother122 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx