I'm using the free Zone Alarm v2.6.362 as a firewall on my Win95, 98,
and XP computers on my home wireless Linksys network. I'm testing a
trial version of the new Kerio Firewall by Counterspy on my XP laptop.
The interface is a little confusing, as far as understanding what it's
accomplishing. Can anyone give me an opinion as to how much better
Kerio performs as a firewall, compared to Zone Alarm?
Thanks!
Scott
On 12/23/2006 10:39 AM, something possessed Scott to write:
> I'm using the free Zone Alarm v2.6.362 as a firewall on my Win95, 98,
> and XP computers on my home wireless Linksys network. I'm testing a
> trial version of the new Kerio Firewall by Counterspy on my XP laptop.
> The interface is a little confusing, as far as understanding what it's
> accomplishing. Can anyone give me an opinion as to how much better
> Kerio performs as a firewall, compared to Zone Alarm?
>
> Thanks!
> Scott
I've used both, and in my opinion, Kerio is the better product (but I
think ZA takes less resources, though I could be mistaking). With
Kerio, eve though it's a "trial" version, it is free after the 30 days
are up, you just lose web-content filtering (which I don't even use with
AdblockPlus and FF). Some neat things I like about Kerio that ZA
doesn't have are: an integrated utility similar to sysinternals TCPMon,
and internal monitoring that ZA doesn't provide such as alerts when a
process has recently changed or when a process is doing something to
another process. Also, with Kerio, you can set port access rules in
addition to Program-access rules. Anyway, I hope this helps.
William wrote:
>
> On 12/23/2006 10:39 AM, something possessed Scott to write:
> > I'm using the free Zone Alarm v2.6.362 as a firewall on my Win95, 98,
> > and XP computers on my home wireless Linksys network. I'm testing a
> > trial version of the new Kerio Firewall by Counterspy on my XP laptop.
> > The interface is a little confusing, as far as understanding what it's
> > accomplishing. Can anyone give me an opinion as to how much better
> > Kerio performs as a firewall, compared to Zone Alarm?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Scott
> I've used both, and in my opinion, Kerio is the better product (but I
> think ZA takes less resources, though I could be mistaking). With
> Kerio, eve though it's a "trial" version, it is free after the 30 days
> are up, you just lose web-content filtering (which I don't even use with
> AdblockPlus and FF). Some neat things I like about Kerio that ZA
> doesn't have are: an integrated utility similar to sysinternals TCPMon,
> and internal monitoring that ZA doesn't provide such as alerts when a
> process has recently changed or when a process is doing something to
> another process. Also, with Kerio, you can set port access rules in
> addition to Program-access rules. Anyway, I hope this helps.
You don't think ZA is a resource hog?
I'll have what William's having!
Notan
On 12/24/2006 11:43 AM, something possessed Notan to write:
> William wrote:
>> On 12/23/2006 10:39 AM, something possessed Scott to write:
>>> I'm using the free Zone Alarm v2.6.362 as a firewall on my Win95, 98,
>>> and XP computers on my home wireless Linksys network. I'm testing a
>>> trial version of the new Kerio Firewall by Counterspy on my XP laptop.
>>> The interface is a little confusing, as far as understanding what it's
>>> accomplishing. Can anyone give me an opinion as to how much better
>>> Kerio performs as a firewall, compared to Zone Alarm?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Scott
>> I've used both, and in my opinion, Kerio is the better product (but I
>> think ZA takes less resources, though I could be mistaking). With
>> Kerio, eve though it's a "trial" version, it is free after the 30 days
>> are up, you just lose web-content filtering (which I don't even use with
>> AdblockPlus and FF). Some neat things I like about Kerio that ZA
>> doesn't have are: an integrated utility similar to sysinternals TCPMon,
>> and internal monitoring that ZA doesn't provide such as alerts when a
>> process has recently changed or when a process is doing something to
>> another process. Also, with Kerio, you can set port access rules in
>> addition to Program-access rules. Anyway, I hope this helps.
>
> You don't think ZA is a resource hog?
>
> I'll have what William's having!
>
> Notan
Compared to Kerio, IMO No. But I havent' objectively tested this yet.
Of course, with ZA the I have all the extra bells and whistles (Bloat)
disabled (like AV Monitoring and e-mail protection).