I really can't believe someone would suggest "free" and "easy to set it up"
as reasons to use a certain firewall over another. Free and easy to use are
good reasons to pick an office suite, but not a firewall. You should be more
concerned it's security features.
My home "firewall" is basically ipfw, ipnat, tcpwrappers and squid on a
freebsd box 4.1, all of which was free and easy to set up for me. It also
does everything I need it to do. I hesitate to speculate that it appears
monkey did setup you firewall. It appears you have no idea what your
firewall is doing.
I really don't trust windows based firewalls and especially not win9x based
firewalls. The operating system foundation is just to insecure to really
build a good firewall on top of it. How can you honestly say you built a
"firewall" on a machine that has a graphical interface in the kernel? not to
mention Active X? Direct X? MS Office? web browser?
There are just too many unknowns on a windows box for me to put a firewall
package on it, even if it's for a home network.
Sameer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Currier
> "Mail @ faithinchaos.com" wrote:
> > Anyone care to add WHY they think Zone Alarm is better?
> > Zone Alarm is new, and is freeware. BlackIce is established and is well
> > documented.
> > I would honestly love to hear the pros and cons between the two
> products.
> >
>
> There are only to reasons to pick ZoneAlarm over BlackIce.
>
> 1. Its free!
> 2. It is so easy to set it up a Monkey could do it.
>
> What more do you need than that. Really it is simple to use and
> really fast
> to set up maybe 10 minutes start to finish, if your slow. It
> does do a pretty
> decent job. It also does not seem to add enough overhead to
> notice. I can
> host a game of 8 people and still run my zonealarm without any lags.
> Black Ice may be more secure that I haven't seen proof of but it did cause
> me lag time so I know it added alot more overhead. Other than that not a
> darn bit of difference.
>
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