From: "Geo." 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:40777a55{at}w3.nls.net...
> How does it compare to the free version of Zone Alarm?

Dunno, after seeing the way the folks at zone alarm dealt with this
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/326371

I decided I didn't want another vendor like Gordano (of ntmail fame) to
have to deal with so I never bothered playing with it much when moving away
from atguard. FWIW, I didn't see the above as much of an issue but the zone
alarm people handled it so poorly using it as a reason to buy the pro
version instead and then issuing a really lame fix after the riots started
that it just completely turned me off to their products.

Here is a rather kind version of what took place
http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/firewalls/a/aa071303.htm

Geo.

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