Boris Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Just been given a cover disk with a full version of McAfee Firewall 3 on.I've used Zone Alarm free for years, tried Outpost (which I liked a lot [but the family didn't] - so it was uninstalled) but have never experienced one that you actually pay for !! :rolleyes: Is it worth installing ? or should I stick with ZA ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 stick with ZA you dont know what the McAfee Firewall is going to do to your compif it aint broken dont try and fix itmadboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 There's a brand new set - fire waland virus checker sitting in the drawer here. I can't begin to tell you how much trouble it caused on W98 and Xp.I've got AVG - wonderful- no troubles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyespy Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 stick with ZA you dont know what the McAfee Firewall is going to do to your compif it aint broken dont try and fix itmadboy33I agree with MadBoy. I would stick with Zone Alarm. I believe ZA would do a better job than McAfee in regards to the firewall category. But give it a whirl if you like and tell us what you think ! Make sure you disable and uninstall ZA before you install McAfee. BTW, are you using the latest build of ZA ??Regards, bill :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 Been using 3.1.395 since it was released - no problems.I can't resist something thats free like McAfee tho ! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ddraigcoch Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 I wouldn't personally trust McAfee and ZA's latest version is known to have caused many problems - you won't go far wrong using Sygate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 sygates ok but my choice is zonealarm pro,by the way anyone now why my sygate when shutdown will not restart by any shortcut or even by going to the program itself and will only restart at by restarting the computer,some mention in event viewer about missing registry files but apart from that its running fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 sygates ok but my choice is zonealarm pro,by the way anyone now why my sygate when shutdown will not restart by any shortcut or even by going to the program itself and will only restart at by restarting the computer,some mention in event viewer about missing registry files but apart from that its running fine.Zonealarm does that to me! if I shut it down and restart it it just appears grayed out in the systray and will not work until I restart my puter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 happened when I had the free one but the latest zapro is excellent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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