COMODO v. ZoneAlarm?

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Re: COMODO v. ZoneAlarm?

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:04:26 GMT, Jerry Ennis wrote:

> Where could I find objective comparison info of the effectiveness of
> Comodo Firewall Pro and ZoneAlarm free?
>
> TIA

PFW Criticism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_firewall#Criticisms

"Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil.
http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html

Why your firewall sucks.
http://tooleaky.zensoft.com/
"But I quickly realized the truth: The added protection provided by
outbound filtering is entirely illusory."

At Least This Snake Oil Is Free.
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/07/19/at -least-this-snake-oil-is-free.aspx

Re: COMODO v. ZoneAlarm?

Jerry Ennis wrote:
> Where could I find objective comparison info of the effectiveness of
> Comodo Firewall Pro and ZoneAlarm free?
>
> TIA

Commodo is annoying and is always asking to grant permission to apps
that have already been granted permission to. And dll components section
is useless because most people don't have clue what each component is
even. ZoneAlarm is far less annoying. If you are on XP or Vista just use
the one Microsoft provides and use a router with hardware firewall.

Re: COMODO v. ZoneAlarm?

John Adams wrote:

> Commodo is annoying and is always asking to grant permission to apps
> that have already been granted permission to. And dll components section

Yep, actually liked it. But the reoccuring popups made me go back to
ZA. Use ZA 4.5 now (6.5 is to much a resource hog, and 4.5 does the
job by monitoring what programs access the net, as stated here over
and over it won't ctach all ill behaved programs, but that's life :-)
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