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Hi, I'm currently using ZA free (v6) and ez Antivirus which is currently
free for a year. When my free year runs out, can anyone comment on
whether I'd be best to continue to subscribe to ezAV and continue to use
ZA Free, or would there be an advantage in subscribing to ZAAV (which I
believe incorporates ezAV) because of the extra functionality in the
firewall side of ZAAV over ZA free?
--
Sam

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Sam <sam.sam@sam.samsam.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm currently using ZA free (v6) and ez Antivirus which is currently
> free for a year. When my free year runs out, can anyone comment on
> whether I'd be best to continue to subscribe to ezAV and continue to use
> ZA Free, or would there be an advantage in subscribing to ZAAV (which I
> believe incorporates ezAV) because of the extra functionality in the
> firewall side of ZAAV over ZA free?

Hi,

you could also use the Windows-Firewall. You don't need ZA at all.

Yours,
VB.
--
"Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"

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Volker Birk wrote:
> Sam <sam.sam@sam.samsam.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi, I'm currently using ZA free (v6) and ez Antivirus which is currently
>>free for a year. When my free year runs out, can anyone comment on
>>whether I'd be best to continue to subscribe to ezAV and continue to use
>>ZA Free, or would there be an advantage in subscribing to ZAAV (which I
>>believe incorporates ezAV) because of the extra functionality in the
>>firewall side of ZAAV over ZA free?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> you could also use the Windows-Firewall. You don't need ZA at all.
>
> Yours,
> VB.

Are you Bill Gates? If not he should be paying you royalties for free
advertising!

--
Wattsville Blues

Gimme some sugar, baby!

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Volker Birk said ...
> you could also use the Windows-Firewall. You don't need ZA at all.
>
yes, I'm aware of this, thanks - but because it's my family computer and
others are in front of it more than I, I want to make sure that the
system is as safe as possible - and I know that software absolutely
determined to call home will do so even if there is a software firewall
in place.
--
Sam

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Wattsville Blues <nothing@nothing.net> wrote:
> > you could also use the Windows-Firewall. You don't need ZA at all.
> Are you Bill Gates? If not he should be paying you royalties for free
> advertising!

Microsoft is delivering the Windows-Firewall with every Windows XP SP2
for free.

In older Windows releases, that is also true for the ICF, the predecessor
of the Windows-Firewall.

So, I'm afraid, Microsoft have to do their advertizing themselves, as
they did (not without any success ;-) the years before. They don't need
me, and they have nothing of people reading my opinion here ;-)

If I would do advertizing, I'd mention the great script of Torsten Mann,
http://ntsvcfg.de/ntsvcfg_eng.html - it makes Windows to stop offering
servers to the Internet, so filtering with a host based packet filter is
not needed any more in most cases (that means, you don't need a
"Software firewall" or something like that any more).

I put this into a small Windows application to make it easier to use, see
http://www.dingens.org - but I did not translate it into English, because
since the Windows-Firewall with Windows XP SP2 is so easy to use, people
could also use the Windows-Firewall.

Yours,
VB.
--
"Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"

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Sam <sam.sam@sam.samsam.com> wrote:
> Volker Birk said ...
> > you could also use the Windows-Firewall. You don't need ZA at all.
> yes, I'm aware of this, thanks - but because it's my family computer and
> others are in front of it more than I, I want to make sure that the
> system is as safe as possible

I think so. I'm only doubting, that Zonealarm will make your box
more secure than the Windows-Firewall will do.

> and I know that software absolutely
> determined to call home will do so even if there is a software firewall
> in place.

OK.

Yours,
VB.
--
"Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"