Your right about one thing it isn't the ZA of yesterday. I've had five customers who got DSL that DSL wouldn't allow traffic. Correctly setup and verified with ZA support. ZA refunded purchase price as they couldn't get it to work. Outpost did just fine. Dave -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gkarpik@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:17 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Zone Alarm always rated low---Why??? 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 A review from a year ago about a very outdated version of Zone Alarm shows us, what?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.... To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk