Chad & Jude: Since I get this list as a digest I'm behind on my comments.
Ben & Garry are both right on when it comes to Steve Gibson... Steve Gibson's web site is <http://grc.com/> and he has several products. One is "SpinRite 5.0" which is DOS based Assembly code and is very useful as well as being highly reliable - I have saved many an older hard drive because of Spinrite versions 1 through 5. Some of the other stuff on his site are related to his interest/fasination with the internet. Lots of folks haven't had the practical experience that Steve brings to the table. Mike Magee at The Inquirer in the UK is an old fashioned journalist who doesn't like to be told he doesn't know his mouse from a DSP chip. Any comments by Mike about Steve go back nearly twenty years. They are a personality difference (Steve used to have a column at the old InfoWorld print version) and it is not worth going over... ZoneAlarm is by a completely different developer <www.zonealarm.com> . There are some known incompatabilities with ZoneAlarm. However, it is still the number one used software-based firewall. We have seen less problems with ZoneAlarm after doing BIOS upgrades on some of the '486 & '586 based SURVPC. John Oram -------- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:54:31 +0400 From: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: many new SurvPCs to come His zonealarm package messed up at least two computers that I know about. Mine and a friend's who also downloaded that package and installed it. Unfortunately he gets great reviews in the computer magazines too. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
