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To: thecow who wrote (19702)	5/11/2001 10:48:07 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

hi tc thank you very much for the follow up on the za upgrade. there will always be complaints and questions on these forums, for the simple fact that no one writes in to say things are fine. <g3> but when the complaints wind down to a trickle, it's usually a good sign. btw, i've mentioned before that za always seems to be the one that does the heavy lifting on my system. it's always out front handling all of the intrusion attempts. but yesterday norton personal firewall blocked a sub-seven trojan that the other two firewalls didn't act on. that always makes me feel good, like there's a safety net in place. even blackice defender gets into the act on occasion with a security alert. i look forward to upgrading za. thanks for being point man, tc :) mark

To: thecow who wrote (19702)	5/12/2001 1:04:28 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Yeah.. ZA is a great firewall program for your personal system. And I've also had problems contacting their website at times, which just tells me that we're seeing more and more port scanning programs snooping around for open ports, and taking up bandwidth out there on the 'net. Personally, I will only ask for "more info" if I'm seeing persistent attempts from one IP address to access my system. And btw, I can only imagine the INCREDIBLE database that ZA is developing of the more "aggressive" IP ids out there. Find out who is using a particular IP for launching port scans or attacks, and you can use that data to track back the path of the attack. Hawk