Keep old ZoneAlarm or upgrade?

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Having perused a mutitude of Web message boards and sundry news groups it is
my never humble opinion that some of the best advice around is found right
here.

Thus it is here I ask the following:

Do you recommend I keep my old ZoneAlarm version 2.6.88 or upgrade to the
newest offering that supposedly has some built-in patches to ameliorate or
banish some problems the bad guys (and gals) could exploit.

I kept my early version after regularly reading about problems folks were
having with newer versions. My current version has been very stable and
seems to perform correctly.

Is there a real reason to upgrade or should I stick with what I have?

TIA!!!!!!
 
I kept my early version after regularly reading about problems folks were
having with newer versions. My current version has been very stable and
seems to perform correctly.

Is there a real reason to upgrade or should I stick with what I have?

TIA!!!!!!
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My actual version reads 4.5.538.000 Prof., but except from the e-mail
protection (by renaming incoming exe-files) I see no real improvement.
Better keep what you have got, especially as you say it's stable ...
Charles
 
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Do you recommend I keep my old ZoneAlarm version 2.6.88 or upgrade to the
newest offering that supposedly has some built-in patches to ameliorate or
banish some problems the bad guys (and gals) could exploit.

I kept my early version after regularly reading about problems folks were
having with newer versions. My current version has been very stable and
seems to perform correctly.

Is there a real reason to upgrade or should I stick with what I have?
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I guess I'm in the market for this answer too. I'm running 2.6.88 as
well, for the same reason. In fact, I very reluctantly upgraded from
2.1 after a couple of years of use.

Yesterday I went to GRC.com looking for news and details of the
recently advertized ZA vulnerability, but all I found was a mention of
a vulnaribility of versions prior to 2.6.88.




Achim



axethetax
 
(e-mail address removed) (Achim Nolcken Lohse) wrote in
Yesterday I went to GRC.com looking for news and details of the
recently advertized ZA vulnerability, but all I found was a mention of
a vulnaribility of versions prior to 2.6.88.
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After being a ZA shill for so many years, old Stevie ain't about to admit
it's got anything wrong with it.
 
If you're thinking of Zonealarm's SMTP Processing Vulnerability, than you're
better off sticking with your old version.

From their web page:
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/securityAlert/8.html

Affected Products:
ZoneAlarm family of products and Integrity client versions 4.0 and above.

Unaffected Products:
ZoneAlarm and Integrity client versions earlier than 4.0.

You could also try Kerio 2, which was discussed here a few days ago and came
out looking pretty good.

Cheers
H.N.
 
Yesterday I went to GRC.com looking for news and details of the
recently advertized ZA vulnerability, but all I found was a mention of
a vulnaribility of versions prior to 2.6.88.
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Looks like it might be this that the FUDmongers are babbling about.
--

Nicolaas.



- The more you poke at a turd the worse it smells ...
 
kritikul said:
i use that one still, will not change, works well
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Same here.

Obviously most programs are subject to bugs or vulnerabilities at one
point or another. Clearly being a firewall program this *is* far more
problematical, yet I assume (perhaps a mistake on my part) that they
will patch this rather soon.
 
If you're thinking of Zonealarm's SMTP Processing Vulnerability, than you're
better off sticking with your old version.

From their web page:
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/securityAlert/8.html

Affected Products:
ZoneAlarm family of products and Integrity client versions 4.0 and above.

Unaffected Products:
ZoneAlarm and Integrity client versions earlier than 4.0.
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How interesting. So the most secure versions are 26.88 up to, but not
including 4.0.

Maybe we need a new designation: middleagefreeware
You could also try Kerio 2, which was discussed here a few days ago and came
out looking pretty good.
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I beleive I tried Sygate, Kerios, Tiny, a year or two back, and every
one of them refused to install properly on my system. To be fair, a
later version of Zonealarm didn't work well for me either. So I'm
hanging on grimly with ZA 2.6.88 until I get evidence of urgent need
to change.




Achim



axethetax
 
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