Keep old ZoneAlarm or upgrade?

[Burp]

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!!!!!!

 

[Charles D. Bohne]

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!!!!!!

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

 

[Achim Nolcken Lohse]

....

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?

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



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[donutbandit]

(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.

After being a ZA shill for so many years, old Stevie ain't about to admit
it's got anything wrong with it.

 

[Herbert Nagler]

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.

 

[Nicolaas Hawkins]

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.

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]

i use that one still, will not change, works well

 

[Mister Charlie]

i use that one still, will not change, works well

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.

 

[Achim Nolcken Lohse]

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.

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.

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



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