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Posted by Richard Urban on February 12, 2006, 11:07 pm
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I have been using ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite for about 1 1/2 years
now. Until someone "proves" to me that something is better, I will not be
changing. It does it's job very well indeed. I have not had an infection of
any type since I began using it.
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>I did a search with Google - something like xxx "full review" "in stock"
>where xxx is a brand name and/or model no. of a flat screen display
>panel, as I've been reading all about different ones, (and finally ordered
>one / a WEEK that took to decide), - and got a page full of links, as you
>do. The 2nd or 3rd on that I clicked on yielded a page full of, ...how
>shall I describe it...? ...umm... peoples private parts....very large
>ones too ! Gosh! I thought, ...is that trick photography or have some
>people really got ones that big ? !!!
>
> The page just finished loading and my internet security package slapped a
> warning box on top of it to tell me that it had killed a
> "MSO..???...exploit" where ??? is the part that I can't remember, and I
> can't find a record of it in my internet security suite.
>
> I remember reading somewhere that this "exploit" thingy was taken care of
> in a XP update ages ago, and was it something to do with a cookie or
> something stored in a temp folder somewhere.
>
> Anyway, my security suite, the a/v program I think, advised that it had
> killed it and that to "finish and clean-up" I should now reboot - that was
> inconvenient.
>
> Anyone know why I had to reboot ? Sorry for not taking exact details of
> whatever it was.
>
> ps I'm two days into on a 15 day trial of Zonealarm Internet Security
> Suite 6.1.737.000 and am pretty sure I'm going to buy it, it's VERY
> impressive, (excluding that recent 'old' "exploit" vulnerability
> detection - that's not what's impressed me). It's doesn't seem to slow
> the system right down like several others I've tried, including Computer
> Associates Internet Security Suite, (which seems to contain Zonealarm
> anyway), and which only seemed to do half a job, and when the CA server
> was down and I had to uninstall and reinstall it, and because it couldn't
> communicate with its' home site goodness how many times - to do with
> synchronizing a license), it misbehaved and almost took out my Windows
> platform with it ! I tried Zonealarm "free" and AVG "free" and MSAS beta1
> for a few days- wasn't happy with them. Panda Titanium internet security
> suite 2006 introduced delays throughout my whole system. Having got used
> to an almost instantaneous response when doing things on my PC, I couldn't
> adjust to having Panda in there. It had to go !
>
> I haven't looked into it, (haven't the time), and I'm sure I've seen
> mention somewhere that Steve Gibson (and obviously his skills in
> assembler), are connected with Zonealarm. If so that would explain its'
> speed of course.
>
> regards, Richard
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