Shoutbox

McAfee Virus scanner wiped my WinSock2 files in a bootup scan, as such I do not trust them to make anything I want to use.

Norton, had it for 6 months but was getting tired of it slowing down my PC.

ZoneAlarm, one of my mates managed to circumvent it very easily so I won't trust it.

Kerio, several of my Operation Flashpoint clanmates use it.

EZ Armor, not caused me any problems at all.

Norton, Mcafee and ZoneLabs' effectiveness are all based on how well you can configure a firewall, NOTHING has gotten through any of these firewalls for me.

Flawed? Bugs? where?

I've used Norton Internet Security Professional 2004 and it works perfectly! haven't got a single virus let alone anyone one hack me, YES it does stop applications from accessing the net internally and externally! But i got a router yesterday which has hardware firewall protection so now i have hardware and software protection <- the way to go

I use my Linksys Wireless Router. Hardware firewall is better then a software firewall anyday!

i say there is nothin wrong with the firewall in XP. I use it, i havnt had any problems. basicly  a firewall is there for one reason, stop people from gettin in your computer. The firewall in XP does that. And, in SP2, itll be even better. so i dont feel like having a buggy ZA, or a resource hog(norton). ill stick with the one in XP

How do we set up the XP firewall? I just got rid of Norton AV, i've lived for 10ish years without an  AV i can do without... but now i want to get rid of ZA too, i prefer freeing memory

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Originally posted by Ningc_Maniac
How do we set up the XP firewall? I just got rid of Norton AV, i've lived for 10ish years without an  AV i can do without... but now i want to get rid of ZA too, i prefer freeing memory

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You turn it on by going to your network connections (control panel), right click connection, properties, last tab, tick the firewall box. You can't really set much up until SP2

I see... well i guess i'll keep ZoneAlarm Pro until SP2 comes out.... when should that be? (I know a beta was released.... right?)

August or Semptember, I don't recall, sorry. Yes, it's now in beta (RC2).

ZoneLabs is SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH better than EZ Armor, in my honest opinion it's a complete failure as a ripoff (no research has been done on my part), I installed it and straight away saw it was a ZoneLabs clone.

Zone Alarm Security Suite also provides better functionality, stability and security. Not to mention more features than EZ Armor.

I'm sticking with ZoneLabs and this time, I won't let anyone change my mind >_<.