The native firewall in Vista is more than adequate. It doesn't provide alerts for outgoing traffic, but I discovered that most people were just clicking "allow - allow - allow - allow" without much forethought as to that it was they were allowing (and most of the alerts are still cryptic anyway).
I stopped using ZA recently when it was blue screening my laptops when they connected to my .org's network through a VPN. Worked fine one night, then the next day, WHAM. Never could figure out what changed in ZA. Your best security is to not run as the local admin, which you do by an idiotic default in Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Vista is a "restricted" admin with UAC--not good enough for me. > Virus software is not sufficient by itself anymore. > Zone Alarm Security Suite > You can get it free with a promotional pain in the butt or buy it > outright. > http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownl > oad.jsp ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
