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

  • From: "David Weaver" <weaverdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:28:27 -0400

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

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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 A review from a year ago about a very outdated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....




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