Does OneCare need ZoneAlarm?

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After removing completetly McAffee (annoying reminder pop-ups) and reduced
Spysweeper to only scan once a week otherwise shut off, OneCare and ZoneAlarm
are my loyal gate keepers.
But I noticed that almost at the same time OneCare firewall pop-up informs
me about a program accessing the web, also ZoneAlarm pop-up appears.
=> Would anyone recommend to keep both programs?
 
Uninstall ZoneAlarm if you are running OneCare.
Having two firewalls may cause conflicts and other issues.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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| After removing completetly McAffee (annoying reminder pop-ups) and reduced
| Spysweeper to only scan once a week otherwise shut off, OneCare and ZoneAlarm
| are my loyal gate keepers.
| But I noticed that almost at the same time OneCare firewall pop-up informs
| me about a program accessing the web, also ZoneAlarm pop-up appears.
| => Would anyone recommend to keep both programs?
 
or just stop one of them from coming online at start... for zone goto
overview->preferences->load zonealarm at start up, clear the checkbox and
then shut down zone. Say yes to the security prompt and then you only have
WOC running.
Jon
 
I would always keep zone alarm u need no other firewall to be protected
nortons & the rest are just money makers & give the real protection !! My
experience over 5 years !
 
Windows One Care is the worst antivirus software now and it has the lowest
detection rate.It can't detect even well-known malware ,what about new one.


David Lipman tests:
I just tried another adhoc impromptu test. 4 EXE files one SYS file.
A nice mix of Trojans, a worm and a RootKit file.

Microsoft got 0 of the 5
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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McAfee got 4 of the 5
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C:\1\doc_12_02_06_enrcypted_archive.exe ... Found the Generic MultiDropper.d
trojan !!!
The file or process has been deleted.
C:\1\ID_10997210.exe\ID_10997210.exe ... Found the Generic Downloader.u
trojan !!!
The file or process has been deleted.
C:\1\outlook.exe\outlook.exe\00011204.EXE ... Found the
W32/Gaobot.worm.gen.u virus !!!
The file or process has been deleted.
C:\1\usbncmac.sys ... Found the NTRootKit-R.gen trojan !!!
The file or process has been deleted.

Sophos got 2 of the 5
---------------------------------Removal successful

Kaspersky got 5 of the 5
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C:\1\DOC_12~1.EXE archive: NSIS
C:\1\DOC_12~1.EXE/stream archive: NSIS
C:\1\DOC_12~1.EXE/stream/data0001 archive: Embedded
C:\1\DOC_12~1.EXE/stream/data0002 packed: UPX
C:\1\DOC_12~1.EXE/stream/data0002 infected: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.aew
C:\1\DOC_12~1.EXE/stream/data0004 disinfection failed:
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.aew
C:\1\DOC_12~1.EXE/stream disinfection failed:
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.aew
C:\1\DOC_12~1.EXE disinfection failed: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.aew
C:\1\ID_109~1.EXE packed: FSG
C:\1\ID_109~1.EXE infected: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.cjv
C:\1\ID_109~1.EXE deleted: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.cjv
C:\1\OUTLOOK.EXE packed: UPX
C:\1\OUTLOOK.EXE infected: P2P-Worm.Win32.VB.dw
C:\1\OUTLOOK.EXE deleted: P2P-Worm.Win32.VB.dw
C:\1\SRCBCBCP.EXE packed: PE_Patch
C:\1\SRCBCBCP.EXE infected: Trojan.Win32.Crypt.t
C:\1\SRCBCBCP.EXE deleted: Trojan.Win32.Crypt.t
C:\1\USBNCMAC.SYS warning: Rootkit.Win32.Agent.ao

Trend Micro got 3 of the 5
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c:\1\doc_12_02_06_enrcypted_archive.exe [TROJ_DROPPER.AKD]
c:\1\ID_10997210.exe [TROJ_CLAGGER.C]
c:\1\outlook.exe [WORM_GAOBOT.DF]

I think there is no need of comments.
Your previous McAfee got 4 of 5 , your current OneCare got 0 of 5.
No comment :)


If you wish program lighter on resourses but very good at malware catching
-> use Nod 32 .I recently did tests on 4 antivirus software -> Panda , Norton
, Kaspersky and Nod32 , and Nod scored 85% of catching both known and
unknown malware (very good) but because it is lighter that the others it is
good and obviously better than One Care.


Panda_man

Panda_man
 
moonfox said:
In Bing I insrt Zonealarm to download ,answer is : do not rcognize ??What to
do ?
Click to expand...


Bing did you a favor. Use Online Armor and forget about the bloated ZA:
http://www.online-armor.com/products-online-armor-free.php

Better yet, get a router that has a hardware firewall, can do NAT, and
use the native XP firewall to mitigate any future connectivity issues.


MowGreen
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