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No, I've only used Gibson as a test -- he seems to be very sharp and
possibly a little over-cautious by my estimate.
Black-Ice rarely gets a hit on my main machine where I have no Router ports
forwarded, but takes a few low-level pops on machines where PC-Any, FTP,
and Telnet ports are forwarded -- I don't find BI to have any effect on the
performance of any of my machines --
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At 09:41 AM 02/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Ron,
>
>I too use the same router as you, however, sans either ZoneAlarm
>or Black Ice Defender. My experience with ZA was very favorable
>except that for my machine it was a resource hog preventing me from
>running TradeStation with real-time data feed. Thus I acquired the
>Linksys router/firewall. I also use Norton Anti-Virus for email. All
>seems to be well. But what you don't know can hurt you.
>
>Based on your firmware note below I was wondering if you have any
>experience with hacker simulators beyond Gibson's (my router passes
>all of his tests) ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Gary
>
>This is a controversial subject and you'll get differing opinions, but I'm
>running a LinkSys BEFSR41 Router with the latest firmware upgrade
>(important!) -- and BlackIce just to put a little icing on the cake --
>along with Norton Anti-Virus -- The combo works well on several machines --
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>At 05:00 PM 02/15/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >I have been using Zone Alarm for some time and have alot of trouble with
> >it. What is out there that works better?
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