Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)

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Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk) quadaces 09-16-2006
Posted by quadaces on September 16, 2006, 2:57 pm
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For as long as Zonelabs has been in development of Zone Alarm you
would think they would have the bugs worked out by now. I used it
many years ago and it was so bug ridden I moved on to other products.
I decided to give Zone Alarm Pro another shot this week and purchased
and installed it and I see they still have not worked out the bugs.

I spent two days trying to overcome problems with Zone Alarm, things
like it all of a sudden closing the internet connection on
applications that it had previously allowed to work, not allowing my
computer to shutdown but hanging on the Zone Alarm program and telling
me it's not responding. Allowing applications to work properly for
the most part but would not allow one certain part of the application
to access the internet. For example, it would allow firefox to browse
the web but would not allow it to check for updates to the
application.

I am familiar with the setup of personal firewalls and rules creation
and I ensured that each application had full access and was allowed
internet access. I requested help and was directed to some "work
around" instructions to try and force the program to work.

A quick scan of the Zone Alarm Forums show others are equally as
frustrated.

It is surprising that a product of this maturity would be so full of
bugs and problems. It seems by version 6 you would have the basic
firewall functioning reliably.

I had resigned myself to sticking with the Windows XP build in port
blocker (otherwise knows as a firewall), however, thanks to this
newsgroup I stumbled upon a free firewall called COMANDO. There is a
lot of traffic in this newsgroup about this application a year ago but
it's quieted down recently so I decided to give it a try. So far it's
worked as I would expect a personal firewall work. I'll let you know
after I get more time with it.

Anyway, just wanted to give my impressions of my recent experience
with Zone Alarm Pro.

Posted by quadaces on September 16, 2006, 3:18 pm
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>
>I had resigned myself to sticking with the Windows XP build in port
>blocker (otherwise knows as a firewall), however, thanks to this
>newsgroup I stumbled upon a free firewall called COMANDO. There is a
>lot of traffic in this newsgroup about this application a year ago but
>it's quieted down recently so I decided to give it a try. So far it's
>worked as I would expect a personal firewall work. I'll let you know
>after I get more time with it.
>

Just noticed the free firewall I found is COMODO not COMANDO.

Posted by Lars-Erik Østerud on September 17, 2006, 7:23 am
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quadaces wrote:

> For as long as Zonelabs has been in development of Zone Alarm you
> would think they would have the bugs worked out by now. I used it

I have gone back to 4.5.594, small (1/2 the resources), better layout
on the client (remembers tabs, on log - not two, no AV stuff that
takes up place etc). Works OK so far (I have a small rememberance of
it hanging at boot earlier when I used it, but haven't seen it now).
--
Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605

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