[Ham-Computers] Which Firewall?

[S & S Mackay]

Yeah, the problem seems to be almost vindictive.  I uninstalled the ZA 
Pro Demo when it expired and the unistall trashed the system, almost 
like "if you don't buy it, we'll trash you."  Second time this happened. 
 Before it was ZA 2.xx.  Leaves behind corrupted registry, substituted 
 DLLs, calls to non existant .vxd.  Finding it all is impossible.  Even 
their web site recognizes the problem, proposing a convoluted method 
that MAY clean it up.  Too bad, seemed to be an effective tool.  But if 
they can't design a clean uninstall then the rest of their code is 
suspect.  I'm going to install a router, we'll see how that works out.

Cheers,
Scott W7GSM

JV wrote:

>         I am using Zone Alarm on four computers here and have not had 
> the first problem. Does the problem only occur when the program is 
> removed? Operating systems are three using 98se and one (laptop) with ME.
> JV
>
> At 02:09 AM 12-07-02 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> > Based on My experience, stay away from Zone Alarm. While 
>> functional, it
>> > destroys your system if you try to uninstall it.
>>
>> I can vouch for that.  A couple years back I installed it on my 
>> machine AND
>> a friends machine (isn't that what friends are for 8^) and it trashed 
>> both
>> of them.  I tried to remove it as I was very unhappy with it and 
>> ended up
>> having to format both mine and his drives and start a complete 
>> re-load from
>> scratch.  That was what prompted me to buy "Drive Copy" and install a 
>> 2nd
>> hdd on my computer for complete backup.  That has saved my butt more 
>> than
>> once.  (As Duane says, I like to tinker).
>>
>> 73 de Phil  KO6BB
>
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