With Sygate free I get disk writes every 5 seconds on average. I have logging turned off. If I exit Sygate and use Windows XP SP2 Firewall, they stop. The same seems to happen with Zone Alarm free. Do all firewalls tend to do this? Pat.
You being the only one using it ? Hell no. It should (or it's pure crap) have some sort of setting where you can define a memory buffer. Try 32MB, should be enough for a 12 hours IO free system.
Then again, i'm not familiar with those `home products`, what I do know about these firewalls is that they have a reputation that prevent them from being taken `seriously` :)
I think the XP-SP2 does a better job handeling IO since those Zone alarm & Sygate are applications that need to `talk` to windows trough some sort of API. (Unlike FW-1 for ex.)
BIG-Note: This is just me speculating.....
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