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Originally posted by Jak
I use Zone Alarm purely because it lets me know whenever a program is trying to access the Internet. But other than that it's slow and takes forever to start up. What other programs out there can do that same gateway thing to let me know when something's trying to call out?
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every windows firewall program has that feature.
never used zone alarm, but i heard it's quite insecure, so i toss it in with things like black ice defender... the worst of the worst.
i like sygate's firewall, but that thing was a total bastard on my internet connection. it would just strait up block most of my connection/bandwidth. i'd be downloading something, and it would be blocking half the transfer. couldn't figure out why it was doing it, but fuck it, i tossed that trash out.
i have noticed tho since i've switched to cable that my firewall/router is being pounded like a redheaded stepchild (this has been up since friday... but past couple days has been insane - constant activity). not sure if it has to do with the virus, but i imagine that's the case now... i can't think of anything else. and it's not through traffic, i.e. it's just hitting the router and stopping.
really makes me wanna cough up the dough for a sonicwall or cisco firewall instead of the little one i'm running...