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[nomoment]

... still the best free firewall software?

If not, please suggest a new one.

 

[nomoment]

Also, I'm hearing complaints about the newest version. Can anybody address this?

 

[Ripclawe]

Also, I'm hearing complaints about the newest version. Can anybody address this?

Yes its still the best and the newest one sucks ass, I don't know what they did, but when I tried it I got boot up problems. Don't use it.

 

[maharg]

XP SP2 basically does the same thing as zonealarm now.

 

[Fatalah]

Is the new zonealarm the reason why my computer is running slow and the reason why sound skips every time i run any application?

it seems to be a resource hog! i was thinking about reformatting, but maybe i should just uninstall zonealarm once i get sp2...cause as you said, sp2 is a good firewall.

i use protowall to block riaa digs, anybody else use it?

and btw, when's SP2 gonna be at windows update, cause i'm afraid to install it any other way.

 

[shuri]

XP SP2 basically does the same thing as zonealarm now.

It doesnt block outbound traffic. please Try again

 

[maharg]

I was not aware of that. However, I would argue the usefulness of blocking outbound connections, and the ability of an average user to tell the difference between a correct outbound connection and an incorrect one. Inbound connections are a security risk, and for the average user a deny-all policy is probably the right way to go, except for possibly messangers and ftp. Outbound connections, however, are usually a privacy risk and are so extremely common that a allow-all policy pretty much has to be followed by an average user.

 

[Hitman]

The new ZoneAlarm sucks! I had it and it kept freezing my programs. Get the version of ZoneAlarm right before this latest one.

 

[hooo]

The new ZoneAlarm sucks! I had it and it kept freezing my programs. Get the version of ZoneAlarm right before this latest one.

So I wasn't the only one with this problem.

 

[Deg]

Yeah. Go to the latest verion in the v4 series i think. v5 has been buggy with many programs.

 

[teiresias]

Yeah, the newest Zonealarm has alot of issues - not the least of which has to do with Torrents.

 

[nomoment]

Just grabbed ZoneAlarm v4.5.

Working great. Thanks, folks.

 

[Akira]

Where did you get ZoneAlarm 4.5, nomoment? All the sites I found are shady Russian warez sites.

 

[calder]

I use the new version and have never had any problems at all... whew for a change I wasn't one of the poor suckers who gets nailed with all the bugs.

 

[nomoment]

Where did you get ZoneAlarm 4.5, nomoment? All the sites I found are shady Russian warez sites.

Akira: http://www.computeractive.co.uk/downloads/1139297

 

[Chrono]

edit: nm.

 

[Bregor]

You can also get ZoneAlarm 4.5 directly off of the Zone Labs site:

http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1012_zl/zlsSetup_45_594_000.exe

 

[maharg]

Actually I just read something that makes me think xpsp2's firewall is not so hot after all. Not sure if it's true yet though

 

[MASB]

lol. I guess I need to update. I just checked and my Zone Alarm is version 2.1.44.

 

[SickBoy]

From a lot of stuff I've read, it looks like life is better when you don't update ZoneAlarm. People use it trouble-free, then upgrade to the new one and have all sorts of issues. I'll be sticking with the version I've got now until such a point where it's determined that it's actually some form of alien spyware or something.

-SB

 

[aoi tsuki]

A dozen posts and no mention of Sygate Personal Firewall?

http://soho.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

i stopped using ZA (can't remember the version but it was the latest a year ago) when it completely killed my internet access. No problems with SPF, i've uninstalled and reinstalled it and it works like a charm. Plays well with Bittorrent and other P2P apps as well.

 

[mrklaw]

sygate gets a nod from me. Very nice bit of software.

 

[Deg]

A dozen posts and no mention of Sygate Personal Firewall?

http://soho.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

i stopped using ZA (can't remember the version but it was the latest a year ago) when it completely killed my internet access. No problems with SPF, i've uninstalled and reinstalled it and it works like a charm. Plays well with Bittorrent and other P2P apps as well.

Sygate is flawed apparently. Best of the free ones is ZA.

 

[Culex]

Zone Alarm 5.1 fixed the problems with online gaming, but there are still major P2P problems. Bittorrent freezes along with Emule, etc. Pages won't load, or only half-load and continue forever. CPU usage skyrockets.

Stay away from 5.X

 

[aoi tsuki]

Sygate is flawed apparently. Best of the free ones is ZA.

Yeah, "best of the free ones" can kill/hinder internet access and eat up your CPU. FWIW i had no major problems other than occasion CPU usage spiking with an older version (2.x IIRC) of ZA. Later versions turned me away from the program.

 

[Bregor]

ZA 4.5 is the last fully stable version.