-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Zone Alarm always rated low---Why???

  • From: "Wyatt M. Portendt" <nunyabidness6@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:32:15 -0500

Some would disagree.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020412S0009

On 8/18/2003 at 4:36 AM a whisper was heard, and the one known as Grant
Karpik was rumoured to have uttered....

          |  On 18 Aug 2003 at 6:54, David Weaver wrote:
          |  
          |  > Well, unless they improved it, ZA will allowed hijacked
          |  packets out,
          |  > whereas Outpost won't.  And I know before you couldn't
          |  assign blocked
          |  > destinations by IP and/or protocol, in either the free or
          |  the paid.
          |  > 
          |  > Zone Labs rested on its laurels too much, and now there's a
          |  better
          |  > firewall (IMHO).
          |  > 
          |  > Dave  
          |  
          |  
          |  Don't want to get into a 'mine's bigger/better than yours'
          |  match but the Zone Alarm of 
          |  today isn't the Zone Alarm of yesterday. Seems to me that
          |  their's a fair bit of 'fud' being 
          |  spread on this subject over the last couple of days and folks
          |  might want to take 
          |  everything that's been said about various software firewalls
          |  with a grain of salt and do a 
          |  bit of research for themselves.
          |  
          |  And that's all *I* have to say on the subject....
          |  
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          |  "A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do
          |  evil that good 
          |  may come of it"
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          |  ...William Penn, 1683
          |  
          |  Grant Karpik
          |  gkarpik@xxxxxxxxx
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