[dba-Tech] Re: Virus mail

Francisco H Tapia my.lists at verizon.net
Mon Oct 27 12:18:02 CST 2003


Kathryn Bassett wrote:
> Drew said:
> 
>>Ya, the free method is to stop the messenger service on your machine.  Or,
>>if you need the messenger service, install Zone Alarm.  (Though I had stuff
>>like that get through Zone Alarm before, had to tweak the settings a bit.
> 
> 
> I do have ZA (the free version).
> 
> Francisco said:
> 
>>Sygate Personal Firewall will stop those for you.
>>and for personal use it IS free.
> 
> 
> Will there be a problem if both are installed? ZA works for everything else except those blasted gray popups, I don't want to mess it up.
> 
> --

THERE is no NEED to keep ZA installed on your system if you go w/ 
Sygate, I know that the Free ZA has limitations on how much it lets you 
configure.  I found Sygate to be more powerful as a free free firewall 
than any of the others.

-- 
-Francisco




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