From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I'm trying out Comodo, but I'm not sure yet if I like it. It has a toy-like
UI which bothers me for some reason, and I find it a wee bit difficult to
set it up for things like a local webserver which I use for development but
don't want to be accessible from the outside. I've only used it for a week
or so, though, so I'm still in the "undecided" category.

I really, really likes Sygate, but need something current which I can use
for friends and family when needed...


Antti Kurenniemi

"/m"  wrote in message
news:i199k29is6obfk67d6u76kg626n4513r8m{at}4ax.com...
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for the pointer, I'll look into Comodo as well.
>
> I'm also watching Core Force.  It looks like it may have potential once
> they get to a 1.0 version.  So far, it has worked fine in my quick
> tests.
>
http://force.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&aid=30
>
> /m
>
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:18:32 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
>
>>Comodo Firewall seems like a good one to try.  I just downloaded it
>>recently
>>after seeing it referenced here by someone, and after reading the very
>>good
>>review given it by Neil Rubenking from PC Mag.  It tested better than both
>>Outpost and Sygate and its free.  They also have a free antivirus and a
>>free
>>spam product.  I haven't used either of them, but might give a look at
>>their
>>anti-spam product.  Right now I'm using Avast anti-virus and I'm perfectly
>>happy with its performance.
>>
>>http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
>>
>>
>>Gary
>>
>>"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>news:4543b628$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>I thought Symantec purchased and subsequently scrapped Sygate?
>>>
>>> "/m"  wrote in message
>>> news:bfc7k2lf7mg7ojuh6rlq4svgn13ss8s0t1{at}4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>> Agnitum's Outpost firewall seems to be doing something
similar in their
>>>> new 4.0 version.  What a mess.  Outpost is getting more and more
>>>> bloated
>>>> with each release and stuff is just not working properly here.
>>>>
>>>> I may switch over to Sygate and forego my 3-user license
for Outpost.
>>>> I
>>>> already switched over to Sygate from Outpost on my notebook.
>>>>
>>>> /m
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:34:24 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
>>>> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>It looks like it's related to the srescan service that
Zonelabs added
>>>>>to
>>>>>6.5.*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=3
6422
>>>>>
>>>>>In installing Roxio media creator suite 8, it did not
install properly.
>>>>>On
>>>>>analysis I found the this was because it could not write required
>>>>>information in some registry keys (some of its essential services
>>>>>failed
>>>>>to
>>>>>be installed). Only after a '/clean' install of ZA free
6.5.731 was I
>>>>>able
>>>>>to install EMC8 successfully. Just shutting down ZA is
insufficient, it
>>>>>seems to be ZA's srescan service that causes the
problem and that does
>>>>>not
>>>>>get unloaded when you just shut down ZA, even if you
set 'don't load ZA
>>>>>at
>>>>>startup' and reboot, srescan is apparently loaded (it
shows in device
>>>>>manager as installed).
>>>>>Reinstalling ZA after installing EMC8 works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>>"Rich Gauszka" 
wrote in message
>>>>>news:4542cbc4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> My 2nd DVD drive kept changing it's drive letter
on 2 different
>>>>>> system
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> had me perplexed as to what was causing it. Twas
Zone Alarm 6.5.x.x .
>>>>>> Meethinks I need a new less dangerous firewall
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id
=37443
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 6.5.x.x. has a known problem for anyone who is
using the drive mapper
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> Windows Disk Management to re-letter their
accessory drives such as
>>>>>> CD/DVD/USB/Zip drives. I haven't had a problem
with ZA re-lettering
>>>>>> partitions, but my partitions are all lettered in
order. But if your
>>>>>> accessory drives are not lettered sequentially, ZA
will change the
>>>>>> drive
>>>>>> letter of at least one of them. For instance,
let's say you have on
>>>>>> your
>>>>>> HDD, partitions C: and D:, and you have a DVD
called S: and a CD
>>>>>> called
>>>>>> T:
>>>>>> For several people ZA will change the T: drive to
letter E: (the
>>>>>> first
>>>>>> available drive letter). You can change it back to
T: using the drive
>>>>>> mapper in Windows Disk Management, but ZA will put
it back to E: on
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> next reboot. ZA Tech Support is aware of the
problem and wrote me
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> they hope to fix it in the next release. For me
and others, reverting
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> version 6.1.744.001 stopped that problem with
changing drive letters.
>>>>>> So
>>>>>> you might want to try to revert to that earlier
version to see if it
>>>>>> stops
>>>>>> your problem (if indeed you are using a 6.5
version). The previous
>>>>>> versions are available for download on the
ZoneLabs support website.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If this solves your problem, file a report to Tech
Support so they
>>>>>> will
>>>>>> know the extent of the drive-letter changing
problem, etc. with
>>>>>> 6.5.x.x.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Support form:
>>>>>>
https://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/forms/tech_support.jsp
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

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