Zonealarm vs. Tiny Firewall

[Lex Luthor]

I've been using Zonealarm (freeware) for some time now and seems to be working well.

But, I've been reading a lot of good press on the free firewall from Tinysoftware.
http://www.tinysoftware.com

It seems like it's a lot more configureable and just as secure.

Anyone have any comments?

Anyone dumped zonealarm for this?

Thanks!
Lex

[TheCroc]

You may want to read this DSLR thread (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,408085;root=security,1;mode=flat) before throwing out the best firewall available at the moment.
IMHO

[Lex Luthor]

I saw that, but I have already installed/deinstalled it successfully. I don't know what Steve G had a problem with that part of the firewall. Seen many many posts showing no problems with BSOD/uninstall.

Lex

[JANDOENT]

Hey Lex, The only problem that I can say about Tiny is that it is a little hard for a newbie to configure. ZA is fine at defaults, Tiny is not.
I am sure that someone with your puter experience will not have any problems with Tiny and that you will find it to be a great program.

I'm lazy and it would be too difficult to explain rulesets to many people.. http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/wink.gif heheh

ZA is what I usually recommend because you don't know how puter friendly the person is.

Glad to see you come into the security forum...

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[This message has been edited by JANDOENT (edited 01-31-2001).]

[learning]

I'm running Win ME on my system and had trouble with Zonealarm. I've been using Tinysofts firewall for about 2 months and find it to be better than Zonealarm. The new release is very easy to configure. Tinys' firewall also uses less resources than zonealarm.

[This message has been edited by learning (edited 01-31-2001).]

[cobra25]

well before you install anything you might want to read the FAQ a company has made....