ZA6 (Free)+ezAV vs. ZAAV

Are you Bill Gates? If not he should be paying you royalties for free advertising!

yes, I'm aware of this, thanks - but because it's my family computer and others are in front of it more than I, I want to make sure that the system is as safe as possible - and I know that software absolutely determined to call home will do so even if there is a software firewall in place.

Hi,

you could also use the Windows-Firewall. You don't need ZA at all.

Yours, VB.

Microsoft is delivering the Windows-Firewall with every Windows XP SP2 for free.

In older Windows releases, that is also true for the ICF, the predecessor of the Windows-Firewall.

So, I'm afraid, Microsoft have to do their advertizing themselves, as they did (not without any success ;-) the years before. They don't need me, and they have nothing of people reading my opinion here ;-)

If I would do advertizing, I'd mention the great script of Torsten Mann,

- it makes Windows to stop offering servers to the Internet, so filtering with a host based packet filter is not needed any more in most cases (that means, you don't need a "Software firewall" or something like that any more).

I put this into a small Windows application to make it easier to use, see

- but I did not translate it into English, because since the Windows-Firewall with Windows XP SP2 is so easy to use, people could also use the Windows-Firewall.

Yours, VB.

I think so. I'm only doubting, that Zonealarm will make your box more secure than the Windows-Firewall will do.

OK.

Yours, VB.