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On Mon, 08 May 2000 20:40:33 +0100, {R} Richard Ashton
<{R}@soggy.semolina.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 08 May 2000 01:33:00 +0100, John Naismith <john@naismith.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>}God this almost sounds like an advert for Symantec ;-)
>
>Which is a pity as IMO *nothing* sofar, PC Anywhere, Winfax, Norton has
>survived the attentions of Symantec and improved. Atguard not working on NT
>is a joke.

The version of Ghost (5.1D) I got seems to have survived their
attentions....

>Certainly the virus scanner is crap as you will discover when you get Pretty
>Park sent you.

I agree about the AV (I never said this was the only AV scanner I had
running <g>).

However three points should be noted :

1) 30 quid for a firewall/ad blocker/parental controls/AV package is a
damn good buy.
2) It's a *lot* more user-friendly for "non-techie" people, while
still allowing you to define/modify rules just like AtGuard (same
interface).
3) It blocks fragmented IP headers - which (IIRC) build 11 doesn't.
ISTR that I had to rely on BlackICE sitting behind build 11 to do
this.

Basically Richard, what I'm saying is this is a *damn* good package
for the price. The firewall is just as functional, but the front end
(and auto-configuration for apps) is better, it comes with an AV prog
(not the best, but better than nothing), and the Liveupdate facility
sets new rules for trojan variants/etc. I hate to say that I can't
fault it for an average user. In fact I actually like it (only had to
modify a couple of rules) as it set up Agent & Netscape perfectly - no
going in and adding SMTP to Agent and https/etc for Netscape. It's a
trivial task, but Symantec seem to have added the common ports that
"well-known" apps use into the database, which makes life a *lot*
better when you're setting it up. It also doesn't crash/freeze/hang
the machine at some web sites like build 11 does.

I'll look out the CD if you want, but IIRC it had the NT files that
build 11 had - I reckon the setup program has been modified to look
for 95/98. I can't remember the exact switch (got it written down
somewhere), but you can force Installshield to install apps on NT,
even when it's been "told" not to. Something like setup /forceNT or
something similar works (I have done it in the past successfully with
other apps).....
--
John Naismith
john@naismith.demon.co.uk