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Re: Personal Firewall: Revisited
de badgolferman 05/07/2006 03:54
AlleyCat, 5/6/2006,6:42:55 PM, wrote:
>
> I know this has been discussed recently but... I have use ZoneAlarm
> for many years and have found it to work very well. The only
> "problem" I have with it, is that it uses a lot of memory
> (vsmon.exe). I uninstalled it and ran Outpost for a few minutes. I
> must have had it configured wrongly, because my browser had
> difficulty opening a webpage. I temporarily disabled Outpost, and the
> browser worked fine. I enabled Outpost and the browser worked, but
> only because I already had it open and functioning.
>
> Is there a good free "lightweight" firewall title? I've heard of
> Sygate, but will it "hog" resources as ZoneAlarm did? Also, does
> anyone have it and be able to post it to a binaries group or email it
> to me? Remove Zoom Zoom from the address. Thanks for any help.
>
> zoomzoommx6_car@hotmail.com
>
> Al
I am using the last freeware version of Sygate and since it has been
bought out by Symantec I have been looking at others also. I had the
same experience you had with Outpost and uninstalled it immediately
also.
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