Posted on 05/09/2006 11:21:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Yea right, ZoneAlarm! I have had so many problems with that damn thing! LOL!
MEPIS Linux comes with GuardDog and after a couple easy tweeks grc.com(sheilds up) returns "true stealth".
About the only problem I've had with ZoneAlarm is that it wants to block your local ports on a home network. Even that is an easy workaround, and if it's just absolutely giving you a fit, you can easily remove it and use something else. Try taking a Symantec product off of your computer. Won't happen.
I'm just the opposite. Around our house Macafee is called Crapafee because it took out my o/s with a file update a couple of times. That was enough for me.
The latest non-corp Symantec does have some issues, but I wouldn't recommend Mcaffee to anyone, even if I thought they deserved it.
Its a pain to get setup right, I haven't tried it in a LONG time maybe its better now than it used to be, a few years ago. no ideas.
It is. After about three days of it constantly asking you if a certain program can have access to the internet, it pretty much gets everything configured on its own. You can't beat the price and my ShieldsUp test shows me at true stealth.
good deal. :) maybe when my norton expires I will give it a shot again. My Norton is paid up for about another 8-9months though
Infamous, yeah, in the respect that Norton has uninstallers for their uninstallers. NIS 2002 left a trail of crap in the registry. Doing a Windows reinstall over itself was nothing but a headache. You couldn't get Norton to work without a complete format and reinstall. It happened to me and a friend who bought NIS from my recommendation.
Yeah, we're still friends. ;)
I still have Norton (old version) on my computer, only reason … the defrag program. If I could get a recommendation on a good defrag program I would dump Norton in a nanosecond.
There are a number of defraggers out there, but I just use the one in the system tools for Windows. I'm sure that Norton doesn't do anything so special that there isn't an alternativce out there. Go to download.com and search 'defrag' and you come up with a hundred or more choices.
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