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

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From: John Corliss
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:00
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Lordy wrote:

> jcorliss@ccountry.net (John Corliss) wrote in
> <38DCA50F.505819FC@ccountry.net>:
>
> >I'm running a Pentium 90 still. And what slowed down was ALL of my
> >surfing. It seems like I went to having a 14,400 bps modem from a 56 k.
> >It was probably due to my old computer. Zone Alarm probably has little
> >or no effect on newer and faster computers.
>
> How much memory do you have?

32 megs

>
> Haw many processes are running?

Dunno.

> Adding an extra process (ZA) could have started your programs swapping out
> to hard disk.
> Is there more hard disk activity ? Especially when switcing windows?
>
> If so
> 1) Cut down on number of processes running at the same time
> 2) Get a freeware memory utility from Tucows
> 3) Buy some more memory (though you may be at the stage of considering
> a new motherboard/CPU/mem combo)
>
> Andy L

Actually, want a new computer altogether. However, fixing my Harley was a
higher priority.
I'll get by. There's nothing on my system that anybody can use against me
anyway. And if they tried, I'd simply hunt them down like a dog and kill them.

--
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From: John Corliss <jcorliss@ccountry.net>
Subject: Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it
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