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Article #317Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it
From: TomsQ
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:00
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: | | > | > 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f922c,7f48db9e711ba7be X-Google-Attributes: gidf922c,public X-Google-Thread: 10c8f2,7f48db9e711ba7be X-Google-Attributes: gid10c8f2,public X-Google-Thread: 112049,7f48db9e711ba7be X-Google-Attributes: gid112049,public From: "TomsQ" <mandrake@videotron.ca> Subject: Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it Date: 2000/03/24 Message-ID: <NTWC4.3744$Sv1.94179@weber.videotron.net> X-Deja-AN: 602039141 References: <Frrozx.rF.0.queen@torfree.net> <38D77511.84BB2774@ccountry.net> <38D8FC6E.EE45F74A@ccountry.net> <38DC3303.16D50668@videotron.ca> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.net X-Trace: weber.videotron.net 953956973 24.200.56.166 (Fri, 24 Mar 2000 23:02:53 EST) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 23:02:53 EST Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls,can.internet.highspeed,alt.comp.freeware