Sygate Personal Firewall vs Zone Alarm
By servlet
@servlet (190)
Poland
July 2, 2007 6:08am CST
I have installed this on several relative's PCs in place of using XP's built-in FW. I had considered using the free Zone Alarm firewall, but this applcation loads faster, and uses less system resources. It has a very favorable "memory footprint" and it's not limited in any way. Yes, ZA offers other things like a whois, and the ability to get more detailed information, but the end users that I installed this for would not use those extra features anyway, or know what to do with them, so those extra features are unnecessary for them. Installing this on a PC that the end user does not need to interact very much with is a great relief to the "family IT help desk", otherwise known as ME!
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4 responses
@darkness01 (1300)
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2 Jul 07
Comodo firewall gets my vote as the best free firewall on the internet today. The interface is very easy to use, it updates automatically, has a very small footprint compared to others such as the Norton system hog, it offers very good security in recent tests, it has areas such as seing LAN traffic easily and setting program controls easily, its brilliant.
@glf1980 (222)
• Italy
2 Jul 07
Yes, many users don't want to know anything about their Pc...It works, it's ok...Nothing else.
Extra features??What??
I've been using Sygate (one of the best) since last year, now I've discoverd Comodo, and I think it's a nice and very professional for a free product...
@naokokensaku (529)
• Malaysia
6 Jul 07
That's odd. I thought I read somewhere that they were going to disable support and updates for Sygate soon?
