Interesting, my firewalls report no outside activity at all.
I wonder if Zone Alarm is like Xsoftspy. I have been running it for
awhile and it consistantly finds a few spyware programs missed by
AdAware and SpyBot. Only when I installed it on my new laptop I noticed
that it found exactly the same spyware on the laptop that it had on the
desktop. Humm...? I thought about that for awhile and came to the
obvious conclusion, that the spyware it finds are installed by Xsoftspy
to make it look good. About every three database upgrade downloads it
finds another spyware program that none of the antispyware programs
noticed. I think the main difference is Xsoftspy is a program you have
to pay for while the others are freeware. Freeware has no reason to make
you shell out for an upgrade while Xsoftspy is always telling me that
there is a new version that I should download and, of course, pay for.
Of course I do not live in the big city... But even when I did, I think
I have only been invaded by a total of maybe 20 viruses in my 40+ years
of computing --not counting stuff downloaded from the net, virus checked
positive, and deleted. And only three of them have gotten past my
anti-virus measures, if they really were undetectable viruses rather
than just windows famous instability. Those three did cause a lot of
hassles however, requiring a complete systems wipe to get rid of.
graywolf
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Somewhat less than 48 hours ago I installed the
free version of Zone Alarm.
As of a few minutes ago more than 3400 intrusions and access attempts have
been blocked by the program. That's mind boggling!
My thanks to all who recommended the program.
Shel
I bought the program from my local Staples store last January and found the
same thing.
While on dial
up i would get constant opoups re intrusions. Having moved to always on DSL, i don't get
the pop ups,
so i quess its working more in the background for some reason.
Dave
