Yeah... Get rid of Zone Alarm, and try Sygate Personal Firewall (it's also free for personal use)... write an advanced rule for it that will allow only the communications you wish.
just a nickle's worth. Troy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ScanMan Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BW degradation when using ZoneAlarm The protection that a "personal firewall" offers is slight, at best. Considering that Windows will just let programss waltz all over each other's RAM, nothing can really be called "secure" on Windows. What really WILL enhance security is SSH. There's a windows client called "tunnelier" I think. It basically works like a very tiny VPN. On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 13:51, Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma wrote: > Hello, > > I just signed up for ADSL, which is greate because it's like > physically being on the LAN at school or any particular > building. I can do work over the network with graphics > communications software like www.tightVNC.com. > That is, until I enable ZoneAlarm. Then the speed > drops down to about the same as a 56Kbps modem without > ZoneAlarm. It looks like my choices are: > > * Forget working from home > * Forget a firewall (probably foolish) > * Forget ZoneAlarm (but it's free!) > * Live with download rigour-mortis until I give into one > of the above > > Anyone have a more clever idea? > > Thanks. > > Fred > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- > Fred Ma > Department of Electronics > Carleton University, Mackenzie Building > 1125 Colonel By Drive > Ottawa, Ontario > Canada K1S 5B6 > ======================================================================== == > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
