Zone Alarm sucks

> Outbound protection is almost useless because a malware can hide
> itself from outbound protection.

I never had any issues with ZA running properly but I would often get a
dialog asking if a program can access the internet and, of course, there is
no way to know if some program should be accessing the net or not.

Eventually, I got rid of it.

--g

"geoff" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
news:cBb6k.74236$tY4.1555@fe06.news.easynews.com:

>
> I never had any issues with ZA running properly but I would often get
> a dialog asking if a program can access the internet and, of course,
> there is no way to know if some program should be accessing the net or
> not.
>
> Eventually, I got rid of it.

Yea, and ZA only ever asks you about safe anpps anyway and not the malware.
I don't need a prog asking me if it is ok for IE to access the internet. If
you want to get really tricky with this stuff then try Anti-Hook. That will
ask you if it is ok to do anything on your computer, and I mean just about
everything. It is extremely annoying.

On Jun 18, 6:30 am, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:
> "Flasherly" <gjerr...@ij.net> wrote in message
>
> news:9d933169-4990-4736-820a-5d10555f60c0@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 17, 9:13 am, Des <desotuat...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Need some firewall help here. I have a friend who has difficulty
> > surfing the net as every single site is continually being blocked by
> > ZONE ALARM. Now I use Norton and it only complains if it detects some
> > kind of intrusion. This is clearly crap and is unusable. Caroline uses
> > AOL (Like me) but this has an all built in (does everything) system
> > including it’s own browser (a bit like the old compuserve). Problem is
> > it is in the form of a giggle page (no way around it)n as there is no
> > URL bar at the top. Getting to a website I have created is impossible
> > as it is not in the search engine. She is of the opinion that this is
> > how we all surf the net. Is there a wy to configure zone alarm or
> > should I rip it out and replace it with something better?
>
> > Desmond.
>
> try COMODO
> free and wide propularity
>
> Yes.
> I also have had problems with Zone Alarm and switched over to Comodo

Another I've been meaning to look at, apart from until now for means
to monitor and tally bandwidth usage, appears to have some rules for
limiting/containing connects....

NetLimiter is an ultimate internet traffic control and monitoring
tool : : designed for Windows. You can use NetLimiter to set
download/upload : : transfer rate limits for applications or
even single connection and : : monitor their internet
traffic. : : : : Along with this unique feature, Netlimiter offers
comprehensive set of : : internet statistical tools. It includes
real-time traffic measurement : : and long-term per-application
internet traffic statistics :

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:07:40 -0700, "Jon Danniken"
<jonREMOVETHISdanniken@yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Des" wrote:
>> Need some firewall help here. I have a friend who has difficulty
>> surfing the net as every single site is continually being blocked by
>> ZONE ALARM.
>
>Perhaps your "friend" misconfigured ZA; I (and everyone I most everyone I
>build for) have been using it for over a half-dozen years now without much
>trouble.
>
>Jon
>

Does ZA work now ? I liked it at FIRST, then they got cute and
really ******* up the program. I switched to Kerio 2.1.5 so long
ago that's a 2003 version. Still works great, no problems.