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Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it

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From: TomsQ
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:00
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Personaly, I found it to slow my connection down by almost ten percent,
especially usenet downloads.

Also, it is a wee bit bulky coding wise, I have a PIII, but still, truth is
if you dont go around pissing people off on purpose, all ya really need is
to use a good virus / trojan scanner

Alan Browne <alan.browne@videotron.ca> wrote in message
news:38DC3303.16D50668@videotron.ca...
| I use Zone Alarm, and it has no way slowed down anything.
|
| DL rates are still very high (per my tracking database)
|
| What EXACTLY has slowed down on your system?
|
| Alan
|
|
|
| John Corliss wrote:
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| >
| > Well, I've reconsidered after reading some of the replies to your post.
Still a
| > good job of detective work, but I think we can pretty much rest assured
about
| > the personal info being for their use only. I would feel safe using
Zone Alarm.
| > However, I won't because of the way it slowed down my system.
| > --
| > John Corliss
| > '69 FLH
| > Homepage at: http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/
| > Updated to frames version on 3/21/00 (loads a WHOLE lot faster!)
| >
| > alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q. at
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/FAQ/FrameSet1.html
|
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From: "TomsQ" <mandrake@videotron.ca>
Subject: Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it
Date: 2000/03/24
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