Re: free Zone Alarm firewall compared to SP2

From: george (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:52:10 +0200

"Moe Belli" <mbelli@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:%23rjkI6bmEHA.704@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Moe Belli wrote:
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>> I was wondering which is better? Should I get rid of Zone Alarm and just
>> use the built in Windows XP SP2 firewall? Does Zone Alarm give me
>> anything that XP's firewall doesn't give me features wise?
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>> MB
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> Okay, so I guess it's better not to use the XP firewall and to just run
> Zone Alarm.
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> I've been hearing people with problems with the most recent versions of
> Zone Alarm. Is there a better shareware/freeware XP firewall solution out
> there that anyone can recommend.
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> mb

Sygate (free for personal use)
http://smb.sygate.com/download_buy.htm
is another good candidate

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