On 1/17/06, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Nic Werner > > Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:05 AM > > To: Steven > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] PC Firewall Choices > > Importance: High > > > > > > ZoneAlarm - gets in the way, and hard to diagnose problems. > > You end up turning it off because it never remembers your > > settings and you can't trust it. > > > > Rubbish. Sure it gets in the way. It is MEANT to get in the way. If you > close it down, it is likely because you don't know how to drive it. The prog > CAN be a little hard to newbies to understand if you want to go internet > banking etc but people on this list ought to know how to handle it. >
Getting in your way as opposed to letting you get work done are two different things. Kerio does a great job of popping up and explaining what is happening while I've seen more people confused by ZA and its dialogs No, we've turned ZA off as web sites or programs won't load (Ciscoworks, nGenius, etc) and even though we've checked the logs of ZA, nothing shows as being blocked. Turn it off and everything magically works. I will never run the bloat that is ZA. Talk about trust, I don't trust the logging capability of ZA at all due to examples like the above. While I enjoy your rant to the choir about not trusting programs, my point is that ZA doesn't show everything while it is actively blocking something. To each their own! As you can see Steven, you should just download each one and spend about a week fussing around. - Nic. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
