Hi Daniel, On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 11:01:42 [GMT -0400], you wrote:
>> If you *really* need a personal firewall, then I'd kindly suggest one >> which doesn't mess up your whole system. Kerio is quite good in that >> respect although others may think differently about that. DR> I think that if the messages downloaded at a normal speed and that DR> it's in the importing mails process, then Zone Alarm has nothing to DR> do with the slowness of The Bat!, since the message has already DR> crossed the firewall. One should think so, but with ZoneAlarm, I wouldn't be too sure about that. IIRC, there was a case were a slowness like the one originally described *was* caused by ZoneAlarm. DR> Although the only way to make sure that Zone Alarm is not the DR> problem, is if the problem persists with Zone Alarm being shutdown. DR> If the problem still persists, then I would suggest looking at the DR> virus scanner's settings to make sure that it's not scanning the DR> files of TB. Because, that could slow the process down. Only disabling ZA doesn't help, if ZA is going loose, only uninstalling can cure a system, disabling ZA will do nothing. DR> I'm using Zone Alarm with Mail Safe on and everything works fine, DR> but that's with the latest version of Zone Alarm(3.5.169.002). When DR> we had the previous version of Zone Alarm on the servers, one of our DR> servers was slowing down for no apparent reason(and no e-mail client DR> and e-mail server resides on that system). And, when we upgraded ZA DR> on that server, it's running normally since then. Well, I had the same position like you over a year ago. Maybe ZoneAlarm works for you. But there are countless examples where ZoneAlarm caused nothing but trouble. Apart from that, a personal firewall is useless from a security POV (this is my personal opinion and anyone who wants to start a discussion about that, please feel free to contact me in PM). -- Regards, Lars The Bat! 1.63 Beta/4 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
