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Re: Anti-virus and Personal Firewall utilities
ZoneAlarm has stopped supporting Windows 98. I have been running it alongside avast! and have kept both up-to-date as notified of updates.
Apart from ditching Windows Me, I now have the options of keeping my fingers crossed or replacing ZA with something that works with Windows Me. The only stand-alone firewall I have found that does this is Agnitum Outpost. The professional version sems to do a lot that duplicates the work of the AV, eg, the on-access scanning of files and email, that could lead to conflict. The free version looks as though it hasn.t been updated since 2002 or am I misinterpreting something on their web site?
Anyone have any thoughts? [I shall replace Me when I *have* to get a new PC (when I *might* be brave enough to try Linux!)]
Phil
EDIT: I checked out the user comments on Agnitum Outpost onthe NT Kernell C|net and found a number of prople had fouund problems with this firewall's interaction with almost every antivirus program and had then found great difficulty in uninstalling it. So, no to that one.
Comments for the NT Kernel product were positive, enthusiastc even, so I installed it. Not too sure about the way it seemed to be working, I ran Sheids Up! I have now uninstalled it and reinstalled the 6.1 version of Zone Alarm. Ut is still 100% invisible to Sheilds Up!, so I'll stick with it for now.
My next question will be to decide whether WindowsXP will run with my 1.4GB processor and 512MB RAM