Thanks for the input Steve. I'm not sure what you mean
by write a rule, but I assume it has to do with what
ports to forward?
--- Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Shawn,
>
> Somebody has misconceived things with Sygate. If my
> memory serves me
> correctly in Sygate, if it needs to access
> something, there is a box to allow
> or deny it. There is another box to check to have
> it automatically write a
> rule so it won't ask you again the next time you use
> that program.
>
> As for Zone Alarm, my comments relate to the free
> version from two or more
> years ago. I think it was version 3X. The problem
> that I've encountered with
> Zone Alarm a couple years ago, when I used it, is
> that sometimes, the dialog
> box that would come up asking whether you want to
> permit or deny a program is
> hard to get to. When I say hard, that means first,
> you always had to use your
> review cursor; either in JFW or Window Eyes. In
> JFW, which I'm more familiar
> with, you then had to left-click the permit or deny
> button, then you had to
> left-click the checkbox if you wanted it to always
> use that action. That's
> the hard part. But, what made Zone Alarm
> paerticularly exasperating and in my
> opinion, undesirable, is that sometimes, this dialog
> box wasn't accessible
> with the JFW cursor. In other words, it was somehow
> hidden by other windows.
> In that case, you couldn't tell it what to do with
> the program. You had to
> either shut the firewall down or re-boot and the
> next time the dialog for that
> program came up, you might be lucky enough to be
> able to access it.
>
> With Sygate and Kurio, you can simply alt-tab to the
> program to permit or
> deny. This is also true of Norton Personal
> Firewall.
>
> As for whether the program will work without writing
> rules for it, I would say
> that many times it will, but not in all cases. I
> had to write a rule for
> Echolink, both in my router firewall and in Norton
> Personal Firewall.
>
> Steve, K8SP
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 8:03 AM
> Subject: Re: zone alarm accessibility
>
>
> Oh wow cool! So no having to remember all the port
> numbers and tell it this, that, and the other thing,
> eh? like what I've been hearing about sy gate.
> That's
> cool, think i'm going to like it.
> Shawn
> --- John Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I used to use zone alarm, I haven't in a few years
> > now since I got my
> > router, but when I used it it was pretty good,
> when
> > you signed on with a
> > program email or chat or anything like that, it
> > would ask you if the program
> > was alright to connect to the internet, you check
> > the box for remember the
> > setting and click yes and after the first day or
> > so, until you used a new
> > program that you hadn't used, it wouldn't bother
> you
> > again with that. I
> > liked it but just don't have a use for it with my
> > router firewall so I got
> > rid of it.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:06 AM
> > Subject: zone alarm accessibility
> >
> >
> > > Anybody use zone alarm with Window Eyes or any
> > screen
> > > reader? Our computer guy is talking about zone
> > alarm
> > > instead of the xp firewall no.
> > > 73
> > > Shawn
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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