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Alternatives to Norton Internet Security (HELP!)
Hi, I did not buy a new version of Norton Internet security for a couple of
years now ever since I switched to ZoneAlarm for firewall protection since it is much easier to use then Norton, works just as well, and FREE! I am looking for a piece of software that does the following features below like Norton Internet Security, but I DO NOT need a firewall or antivirus software as I have 2 preffered choices already (Zonealarm for firewall, Norton's for antivirus). QUESTION: If anyone has recommendations on a software program(s) that can fufill the needs below the way I specified please let me know. One thing I did like about Norton Internet Security is that it had some useful features such as: 1) PopUp Blocker (Except from trusted sites) 2) Cookie blocker and cookie permissions for trusted sites. 3) Allows me to block any activeX stuff from running, accept on trusted sites. 4) Optionally, to allow me to surf anonomously In particular, I loved 2 features of Norton Internet Security. a) The way NIS prompted you if you want to always accept a cookie from a certain site or block it. That way I could choose which sites are the "trusted" sites and which sites all cookies should be blocked from. b) As well, Norton Internet Securirity allowed you to export or import settings in case you do a reinstall or put in a new version, etc., that way you don't have to redo any of your cookie overides. Being able to do this import or export of settings is a bonus since If I had to reinstall Windows it would be a bit of a chore to add the "trusted sites" again and makes managing multiple computers a lot easier. Some programs have other optional features like that Prevents personal data from leaving your computer without permission.(i.e. Protects my privacy & Prevents confidential information from being sent out without your knowledge in email, instant messages, Microsoft® Office attachments, and Web forms, but I don't have to have this latter feature. I'd prefer a free program BUT my most important requirement is that the program needs to work WELL (like the current software I use that is listed below) so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I thought about Norton Internet Security, but I prefer ZoneAlarm firewall to their own firewall software and I don't like the fact that it is so hard to prevent Norton Internet Security from installing the antivirus as well. I use Spybot (search and destroy) to look for spyware (after the fact.) Thanks JC |
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"Johnny Canuck"
wrote in news:Hf04d.30513$yW6.15965@clgrps12: Hi, I did not buy a new version of Norton Internet security for a couple of years now ever since I switched to ZoneAlarm for firewall protection since it is much easier to use then Norton, works just as well, and FREE! I am looking for a piece of software that does the following features below like Norton Internet Security, but I DO NOT need a firewall or antivirus software as I have 2 preffered choices already (Zonealarm for firewall, Norton's for antivirus). QUESTION: If anyone has recommendations on a software program(s) that can fufill the needs below the way I specified please let me know. One thing I did like about Norton Internet Security is that it had some useful features such as: 1) PopUp Blocker (Except from trusted sites) 2) Cookie blocker and cookie permissions for trusted sites. 3) Allows me to block any activeX stuff from running, accept on trusted sites. PopUpCop (http://www.popupcop.com/). Much better popup control. Cookie whitelisting which forces non-whitelisted cookies to be per-session cookies (so web sites that need them still function). AX blocking (w/prompt if selected). 30-day trial (full version, not crippled), and licensing is generous. PopUpCop only works with Internet Explorer. I'm sure that someone will pop in saying you should switch to Mozilla because it can block popups. I haven't tested Mozilla to know if it covers all popup methods and has equal or better cookie management than PopUpCop. 4) Optionally, to allow me to surf anonomously You can't do that with a local client unless it connects somewhere else to use that proxy to forward your connection (the target host knows the IP address of the source host that connects to it). Anonymizer.com, URLencoded.com (no SSL), Tenebril GhostSurf, etc. I haven't done much investigating in this area since I don't navigate to anywhere that I'm afraid of them knowing who I am (which is just my IP address so they'd have to go through my ISP to get my details). The only time that I've use an anonymous proxy (actually all it needed to be was a public proxy) was to reach a site that was unreachable through the path currently available through the routers (routing isn't dynamic). I could, for example, not reach www.creative.com from my ISP but I could reach a public proxy from my ISP and that public proxy through a different route could reach Creative's web site (this let me isolate and report their defective edge host). You just need to configure IE to use a proxy. But then it is a public proxy so its availability is flaky (it may not be up, it may be too busy, or it might just disappear altogether) and that proxy can still record where you go (and why some maniacs will chain together three or more public proxies). I'm sure a Google search on "free public proxy" will turn up some lists for you, like the list at http://www.proxy4free.com/. In particular, I loved 2 features of Norton Internet Security. a) The way NIS prompted you if you want to always accept a cookie from a certain site or block it. That way I could choose which sites are the "trusted" sites and which sites all cookies should be blocked from. For me, NIS 2003 is configured to always allow cookies since I use PopUpCop for cookie management (and why I also disable NIS' popup blocking). I wasn't aware that NIS actually kept a record of which domains you said Yes to allow the cookie encountered at that time (unless maybe it records it in the Allow/Block list in IE). You didn't mention what version of NIS that you use. You can specify allow/block domains in IE under Tools - Internet Options - Privacy - Edit (or Sites). In fact, if you use SpywareBlaster and use its bad-domain cookie list (I don't since I prefer the much more easy to manage PopUpCop whitelist), it adds those domains under this list as Always Block. Even when using NIS, PopUpCop, and/or SpywareBlaster, you probably should configure cookie management in IE to allow 1st party cookies, block 3rd party cookies, and allow per-session cookies (those are *supposed* to get deleted when you exit IE but sometimes the do not - unless you use PopUpCop to enforce cookie whitelisting). With PopUpCop's cookie whitelisting, you can ignore (not delete) cookies that in your Trusted Sites security zone. PopUpCop can override any setting for Always Block/Allow (noted next) but has an option to obey those settings. PopUpCop only loads when IE loads so it doesn't constantly consume resources when they aren't needed (if you're not browsing, you don't need popup and cookie control), unlike other cookie managers that always run as a background application. b) As well, Norton Internet Securirity allowed you to export or import settings in case you do a reinstall or put in a new version, etc., that way you don't have to redo any of your cookie overides. Being able to do this import or export of settings is a bonus since If I had to reinstall Windows it would be a bit of a chore to add the "trusted sites" again and makes managing multiple computers a lot easier. The IE cookie list is in the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings\P3P\History The value specifies whether that domain is blocked or allowed. Just export that key from regedit. See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=182569. Also, an easy way to find these registry keys is to just enter some probably unique string and then search for it in the registry, like adding "wowserbowser.invalid" as a cookie domain or trusted site and then go hunt for it in the registry. That's how I found the registry key for the domains listed in the security zones, which was: HKEY_USERS\yourSID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cu rrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains where yourSID is the security identifier assigned to your account. You can find it listed under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList Look for the one that has your %userprofile% path listed as the ProfileImagePath data item. Some programs have other optional features like that Prevents personal data from leaving your computer without permission.(i.e. Protects my privacy & Prevents confidential information from being sent out without your knowledge in email, instant messages, Microsoft® Office attachments, and Web forms, but I don't have to have this latter feature. I'd prefer a free program BUT my most important requirement is that the program needs to work WELL (like the current software I use that is listed below) so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I thought about Norton Internet Security, but I prefer ZoneAlarm firewall to their own firewall software and I don't like the fact that it is so hard to prevent Norton Internet Security from installing the antivirus as well. What's so hard about unchecking a checkbox during the install? The NIS install stops on a screen asking if you want to include NAV, shows a checkbox (that is checked), and all you have to do is uncheck it and continue the installation. However, you CANNOT install NAV separately of NIS. NAV is included as an integrated component of NIS (i.e., you are not getting a separate license or copy of NAV that is merely packaged in with NIS). I use Spybot (search and destroy) to look for spyware (after the fact.) You might want to enable the "Enable permanent blocking of bad addresses in Internet Explorer" option (with the selection to prompt you when a block occurs) in Spybot 1.3. -- __________________________________________________ _______________ ******** Post replies to newsgroup - Share with others ******** Email: lh_811newsATyahooDOTcom and append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ _______________ |
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:34:47 GMT Humanity I love.It's just people who
**** me off ;-) "Johnny Canuck" wrote : Hi, I did not buy a new version of Norton Internet security for a couple of years now ever since I switched to ZoneAlarm for firewall protection since it is much easier to use then Norton, works just as well, and FREE! I am looking for a piece of software that does the following features below like Norton Internet Security, but I DO NOT need a firewall or antivirus software as I have 2 preffered choices already (Zonealarm for firewall, Norton's for antivirus). QUESTION: If anyone has recommendations on a software program(s) that can fufill the needs below the way I specified please let me know. One thing I did like about Norton Internet Security is that it had some useful features such as: 1) PopUp Blocker (Except from trusted sites) http://www.panicware.com/product_downloads.html 2) Cookie blocker and cookie permissions for trusted sites. as above 3) Allows me to block any activeX stuff from running, accept on trusted sites. 4) Optionally, to allow me to surf anonomously http://www.OffByOne.com/ob1_download.htm Less than 1 meg stand alone browser :P Note:ALL Norton's software is **** except for,"Ghost" which used to be good but now is iffy. HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html remove obvious to reply Free songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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Note:ALL Norton's software is **** except for,"Ghost" which used to be
good but now is iffy. If I am going to switch browser's, I'd go to Mozilla, I just like the way IE handles favourites so I can easily back them up. Plus, its easy to manage them in a Windows Explorer view. I had a bad exerience when i changed over from netscape and a lot of my old bookmark's just didn't look the same and I seemed to have some lost. BTW, geuss you would be an advocate that AVG is the best antivirus, better than Norton's 2005 or Symantec AntiVirus Corp? Thank you for the info. JC |
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vanguard, that was one AWESOME reply thank you for the detail. Your message
is being saved for future reference, particular regarding anonymous browsing. Anonymous browsing ain't too big an issue right now, but cookies (And cookie management), popups, and active X stuff is my main concern. I don't mind manually creating a cookie whitelist with the program, in fact, I prefer it to ensure which websites can't leave cookies and which can one by one. With NIS some cookies seem to get by, and sometimes when you give permission the sites don't work either. Kind of weird that PopUpCop doesn't have an export or import feature since one would think that was key for administering across multiple systems or for reinstalls, but that's ok I don't mind manually setting it up the first time. Thanks for the recomendation, I'll give it a go on my next day off (friday) but for now, I'll follow the thread and see what others think. Thank you Vanguard. JC "Vanguardx" see_signature wrote in message news "Johnny Canuck" wrote in news:Hf04d.30513$yW6.15965@clgrps12: Hi, I did not buy a new version of Norton Internet security for a couple of years now ever since I switched to ZoneAlarm for firewall protection since it is much easier to use then Norton, works just as well, and FREE! I am looking for a piece of software that does the following features below like Norton Internet Security, but I DO NOT need a firewall or antivirus software as I have 2 preffered choices already (Zonealarm for firewall, Norton's for antivirus). QUESTION: If anyone has recommendations on a software program(s) that can fufill the needs below the way I specified please let me know. One thing I did like about Norton Internet Security is that it had some useful features such as: 1) PopUp Blocker (Except from trusted sites) 2) Cookie blocker and cookie permissions for trusted sites. 3) Allows me to block any activeX stuff from running, accept on trusted sites. PopUpCop (http://www.popupcop.com/). Much better popup control. Cookie whitelisting which forces non-whitelisted cookies to be per-session cookies (so web sites that need them still function). AX blocking (w/prompt if selected). 30-day trial (full version, not crippled), and licensing is generous. PopUpCop only works with Internet Explorer. I'm sure that someone will pop in saying you should switch to Mozilla because it can block popups. I haven't tested Mozilla to know if it covers all popup methods and has equal or better cookie management than PopUpCop. 4) Optionally, to allow me to surf anonomously You can't do that with a local client unless it connects somewhere else to use that proxy to forward your connection (the target host knows the IP address of the source host that connects to it). Anonymizer.com, URLencoded.com (no SSL), Tenebril GhostSurf, etc. I haven't done much investigating in this area since I don't navigate to anywhere that I'm afraid of them knowing who I am (which is just my IP address so they'd have to go through my ISP to get my details). The only time that I've use an anonymous proxy (actually all it needed to be was a public proxy) was to reach a site that was unreachable through the path currently available through the routers (routing isn't dynamic). I could, for example, not reach www.creative.com from my ISP but I could reach a public proxy from my ISP and that public proxy through a different route could reach Creative's web site (this let me isolate and report their defective edge host). You just need to configure IE to use a proxy. But then it is a public proxy so its availability is flaky (it may not be up, it may be too busy, or it might just disappear altogether) and that proxy can still record where you go (and why some maniacs will chain together three or more public proxies). I'm sure a Google search on "free public proxy" will turn up some lists for you, like the list at http://www.proxy4free.com/. In particular, I loved 2 features of Norton Internet Security. a) The way NIS prompted you if you want to always accept a cookie from a certain site or block it. That way I could choose which sites are the "trusted" sites and which sites all cookies should be blocked from. For me, NIS 2003 is configured to always allow cookies since I use PopUpCop for cookie management (and why I also disable NIS' popup blocking). I wasn't aware that NIS actually kept a record of which domains you said Yes to allow the cookie encountered at that time (unless maybe it records it in the Allow/Block list in IE). You didn't mention what version of NIS that you use. You can specify allow/block domains in IE under Tools - Internet Options - Privacy - Edit (or Sites). In fact, if you use SpywareBlaster and use its bad-domain cookie list (I don't since I prefer the much more easy to manage PopUpCop whitelist), it adds those domains under this list as Always Block. Even when using NIS, PopUpCop, and/or SpywareBlaster, you probably should configure cookie management in IE to allow 1st party cookies, block 3rd party cookies, and allow per-session cookies (those are *supposed* to get deleted when you exit IE but sometimes the do not - unless you use PopUpCop to enforce cookie whitelisting). With PopUpCop's cookie whitelisting, you can ignore (not delete) cookies that in your Trusted Sites security zone. PopUpCop can override any setting for Always Block/Allow (noted next) but has an option to obey those settings. PopUpCop only loads when IE loads so it doesn't constantly consume resources when they aren't needed (if you're not browsing, you don't need popup and cookie control), unlike other cookie managers that always run as a background application. b) As well, Norton Internet Securirity allowed you to export or import settings in case you do a reinstall or put in a new version, etc., that way you don't have to redo any of your cookie overides. Being able to do this import or export of settings is a bonus since If I had to reinstall Windows it would be a bit of a chore to add the "trusted sites" again and makes managing multiple computers a lot easier. The IE cookie list is in the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings\P3P\History The value specifies whether that domain is blocked or allowed. Just export that key from regedit. See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=182569. Also, an easy way to find these registry keys is to just enter some probably unique string and then search for it in the registry, like adding "wowserbowser.invalid" as a cookie domain or trusted site and then go hunt for it in the registry. That's how I found the registry key for the domains listed in the security zones, which was: HKEY_USERS\yourSID\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cu rrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains where yourSID is the security identifier assigned to your account. You can find it listed under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList Look for the one that has your %userprofile% path listed as the ProfileImagePath data item. Some programs have other optional features like that Prevents personal data from leaving your computer without permission.(i.e. Protects my privacy & Prevents confidential information from being sent out without your knowledge in email, instant messages, Microsoft® Office attachments, and Web forms, but I don't have to have this latter feature. I'd prefer a free program BUT my most important requirement is that the program needs to work WELL (like the current software I use that is listed below) so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I thought about Norton Internet Security, but I prefer ZoneAlarm firewall to their own firewall software and I don't like the fact that it is so hard to prevent Norton Internet Security from installing the antivirus as well. What's so hard about unchecking a checkbox during the install? The NIS install stops on a screen asking if you want to include NAV, shows a checkbox (that is checked), and all you have to do is uncheck it and continue the installation. However, you CANNOT install NAV separately of NIS. NAV is included as an integrated component of NIS (i.e., you are not getting a separate license or copy of NAV that is merely packaged in with NIS). I use Spybot (search and destroy) to look for spyware (after the fact.) You might want to enable the "Enable permanent blocking of bad addresses in Internet Explorer" option (with the selection to prompt you when a block occurs) in Spybot 1.3. -- __________________________________________________ _______________ ******** Post replies to newsgroup - Share with others ******** Email: lh_811newsATyahooDOTcom and append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ _______________ |
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"Johnny Canuck" wrote:
QUESTION: If anyone has recommendations on a software program(s) that can fufill the needs below the way I specified please let me know. One thing I did like about Norton Internet Security is that it had some useful features such as: 1) PopUp Blocker (Except from trusted sites) 2) Cookie blocker and cookie permissions for trusted sites. 3) Allows me to block any activeX stuff from running, accept on trusted sites. Zone Alarm Pro. Jon |
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"Johnny Canuck"
wrote in news:vd34d.30533$yW6.6064@clgrps12: Note:ALL Norton's software is **** except for,"Ghost" which used to be good but now is iffy. If I am going to switch browser's, I'd go to Mozilla, I just like the way IE handles favourites so I can easily back them up. Plus, its easy to manage them in a Windows Explorer view. I had a bad exerience when i changed over from netscape and a lot of my old bookmark's just didn't look the same and I seemed to have some lost. BTW, geuss you would be an advocate that AVG is the best antivirus, better than Norton's 2005 or Symantec AntiVirus Corp? Thank you for the info. JC You might want to visit http://www.virusbulletin.com/vb100/a...s/products.xml. Grisoft's AVG doesn't fare too well regarding *consistentency* in catching viruses (5 passes, 20 fails for a 75% failure rate - not good). Don't bother with "works for me" responses. Saying that I've used NAV on 57 hosts (and ditched McAfee because of detection failures) is still just my experience and only represents a limited exposure to viruses. There are also comparisons at http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html but AVG isn't included. They all seem to vary wildly between themselves and even within a product over time regarding success at catching trojans but I don't know if adding TDS-3 (soon to be TDS-4) would cover that deficiency or irregularity. -- __________________________________________________ _______________ ******** Post replies to newsgroup - Share with others ******** Email: lh_811newsATyahooDOTcom and append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ _______________ |
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"Johnny Canuck"
wrote in news:di34d.30534$yW6.19447@clgrps12: vanguard, that was one AWESOME reply thank you for the detail. Your message is being saved for future reference, particular regarding anonymous browsing. Anonymous browsing ain't too big an issue right now, but cookies (And cookie management), popups, and active X stuff is my main concern. I don't mind manually creating a cookie whitelist with the program, in fact, I prefer it to ensure which websites can't leave cookies and which can one by one. With NIS some cookies seem to get by, and sometimes when you give permission the sites don't work either. Kind of weird that PopUpCop doesn't have an export or import feature since one would think that was key for administering across multiple systems or for reinstalls, but that's ok I don't mind manually setting it up the first time. Thanks for the recomendation, I'll give it a go on my next day off (friday) but for now, I'll follow the thread and see what others think. Currently I have only 8 domains listed for cookie whitelisting. Remember that those domains in the Trusted Sites security zone will have their cookies saved (if you enable the option in PopUpCop to ignore cookies in the Trusted zone which, I believe, is on by default). I have 5 sites listed in my Trusted Sites zone, so there are only 13 domains for whom cookies will be kept if they use one. I like the whitelisting concept because it does NOT block cookies when you are in a browser session with a site. Many will use cookies for correct operation of their web site. So you let the site save its permanent cookie but it will get purged on exiting IE so all permanent cookies are forced to be per-session cookies. Note that cookie whitelisting can only be applied when the LAST instance of IE gets closed; that is, if you have one instance of IE left running then those cookies will linger, but when you finally close the last instance of IE then only the whitelisted cookies (that are permanent cookies) will be kept. I haven't checked on how settings in PopUpCop could be exported. There might be a way. Sounds like a good suggestion to the author which I'll submit. One of the things that ****ed me off about NIS is that you cannot export its rules and settings. At one time, back in version 2002 and earlier, you could export the registry keys holding those values. Symantec decided to hash those registry keys (both their name and their values) to prevent malicious code from altering them without detection, and the hash is different on different installs and might even change during use, so exporting them is a waste of time. For PopUpCop, there are some settings that could be saved by exporting the registry keys: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PopupCop HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PopUpCop However, those didn't contain the cookie whitelist. Exporting registry keys is doable but a menu selection to Export/Import Settings would be preferrable, so I'll suggest that to the author. There are lots of "little" features that I keep discovering in PopUpCop. Ever right-click on a web page and select View Source? Well, all you get is the source code for the frame you are currently in when you right-clicked. PopUpCop can show you the source for all frames. You can enable/disable the NT Messenger Service (although that can be done by using the Services applet). It has irritation levels (i.e., filter profiles) you can define to regulate how much you throttle a web site, but I have repeatedly asked for a whitelist and blacklist so you can assign an irritation level to a web site (just like you can assign a whitelisting action to a domain for cookies). Still waiting on that request, however. By the way, PopUpCop has its ActiveX Guard to block or prompt download of AX content (so you don't have to disable it completely). That has a whitelist and blacklist so you don't have to keep answering prompts for frequently visited sites. SpywareGuard also provides some AX protection, and I use that, too, although the double prompts can be a nuisance so eventually I'll just pick one or the other for AX protection (and PopUpCop gives me white/blacklists so I'll probably go with that). Many times I try to find freebie programs but which are excellent. Eraser is a good security tool for completely wiping a file or drive. SpamPal is excellent, along with its plug-ins, for spam filtering. But I couldn't find anything but crippled trialware versions of popup blockers or they just didn't have all the features of PopUpCop. I have no recollection how I found out about PopUpCop other than it was probably through a Google search. I tested it right up to the end of trial period while testing other solutions before I decided to fork out the $20 for it. -- __________________________________________________ _______________ ******** Post replies to newsgroup - Share with others ******** Email: lh_811newsATyahooDOTcom and append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ _______________ |
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"Jon Danniken"
wrote in : "Johnny Canuck" wrote: QUESTION: If anyone has recommendations on a software program(s) that can fufill the needs below the way I specified please let me know. One thing I did like about Norton Internet Security is that it had some useful features such as: 1) PopUp Blocker (Except from trusted sites) 2) Cookie blocker and cookie permissions for trusted sites. 3) Allows me to block any activeX stuff from running, accept on trusted sites. Zone Alarm Pro. Jon So, if you visit a popup test site, like http://www.popuptest.com/, how many tests does ZoneAlarm *Pro* (not the freebie) pass? PopUpCop passed every test, and I didn't even have it on the high settings (although although I did have to get more aggressive on one test than I care for), and even passed the good popups test. Know of any better sites to test popup blocking? I'd like to hit those (and report any failures to the author). Does ZoneAlarm Pro *ignore* any links in the Links folder (shown as the Links toolbar in IE) to allow them to use Javascript to open popups? Other popup blockers would typically kill any popups opened using Javascript from YOUR shortcuts saved in the Links folder. For example, rather than lose the registration page that I am currently on, I want to open another browser window to Sneakemail to create an alias for that registration, so I have "javascript:void(win=window.open('http://sneakemail.com:80','Sneakemail','width=510,height= 640,resizable=0,scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,status=y es'))" as a shortcut in my Links toolbar. With PopUpCop, clicking that Links shortcut does open a popup windows but several popup blockers that I tested would block it. -- __________________________________________________ _______________ ******** Post replies to newsgroup - Share with others ******** Email: lh_811newsATyahooDOTcom and append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ _______________ |
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"Vanguardx" wrote
"Jon Danniken" wrote: "Johnny Canuck" wrote: QUESTION: If anyone has recommendations on a software program(s) that can fufill the needs below the way I specified please let me know. One thing I did like about Norton Internet Security is that it had some useful features such as: 1) PopUp Blocker (Except from trusted sites) 2) Cookie blocker and cookie permissions for trusted sites. 3) Allows me to block any activeX stuff from running, accept on trusted sites. Zone Alarm Pro. So, if you visit a popup test site, like http://www.popuptest.com/, how many tests does ZoneAlarm *Pro* (not the freebie) pass? Don't know, that site comes up unavailable. ZAP works fine for my tastes, though. Does ZoneAlarm Pro *ignore* any links in the Links folder I don't use the links folder, so I don't know. Jon |
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