as a novice just wondered if i have dropped a clanger.already had kerio firewall on and have just downloaded zonealarm and there already seems to be a bit of conflict advice much appreciated thanks

One question, why?

No need for both, or 2 of any firewall. Get rid of zonealarm and stick with Kerio.

Yeh, Kerio, Zonealarm is resource hungry, and not as secure as it likes to think.

Joel

thanks have taken your advice and got rid of zone

Originally posted by Joelc
Yeh, Kerio, Zonealarm is resource hungry, and not as secure as it likes to think.

Joel
I thought Zone Alarm was pretty secure - for a software desktop solution.

I don't have the most powerful machine in the world, and ZA runs pretty much unnoticeably on it.

As a user I'm always interested in its shortcomings.

Zonealarm has always been a bit cumbersom compared to Kerio, but iirc Zone Alarm is rule based, rather then application based like Kerio. Rule based firewalls are often better, but ZoneAlarm Free is rather system hungry, and can throttle your network connection if not looked after properly, Whereas Kerio doesnt do that, it just works. Thats just my experiance of it, it may be different for others.

Also look at Sygate Personal Firewall here (http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm)

Personally I use a hardware firewall, but I think its a bit overkill for most users

Joel