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

  • From: gkarpik@xxxxxxxxx
  • To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:16:57 -0700

Quoting "Wyatt M. Portendt" <nunyabidness6@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Some would disagree.
> 
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020412S0009

And your point is? A review from a year ago about a very outdated version of 
Zone Alarm shows us, what?

 
> 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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