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to: Frank Haber
from: John Cuccia
date: 2006-12-04 12:04:58
subject: Re: Firewalls for Windows?

From: John Cuccia 

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:55:07 -0500, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>It's Ewido (the companies have merged).  I've used Ewido, and two years ago it
>was one of the few really fierce excavators for difficult cases.  I don't
>think I ever ran it resident for long; it didn't seem to have the moxie of
>SpySweeper, et. al. (nor did it have that kind of overhead).
>
>I was favorably impressed, based on using it as a scanner.  These days,
>though, you really need a resident active program to even partially protect a
>fool at his keyboard.

Are you talking about the AVG firewall piece?

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