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ZA and windows by Supersonicdarky on 04-24-2005 at 01:54 AM
i was thinking of installing ZA instead of windows firewall. Should i or should i not? What are the differences?
RE: ZA and windows by Chris4 on 04-24-2005 at 02:01 AM
I have Zone Alarm with Antivirus.
You can enable ZA so it asks you if you want to accept a program or not, unlike Windows Firewall.
Example: You download a virus by accident. ZoneAlarm will alert you if you want to allow the program to run or not. On this accasion you would click decline.
Zone Alarm has also got E-mail protection (if you use Outlook, Outlook express)
If you get it with AntiVirus... then.... you can search your pc for viruses 
Hope that helps.
RE: ZA and windows by EvilSeph on 04-24-2005 at 02:18 AM
Windows Firewall is just as good as ZA. It all comes down to how the user reacts to alerts. A firewall is useless if the user just goes and allows everything.
RE: ZA and windows by RaceProUK on 04-24-2005 at 03:38 PM
quote:So does Windows Firewall as of SP2. And anyway, it'd only ask about the virus if the virus tried accessing the Internet.
Originally posted by chris4
You can enable ZA so it asks you if you want to accept a program or not, unlike Windows Firewall.
Example: You download a virus by accident. ZoneAlarm will alert you if you want to allow the program to run or not. On this accasion you would click decline.