ZoneAlarm problem

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

Ahahahaha! Wait.... that's me!

lol this reminds me of another discussion:

[k0jak]

ai when i used to play ut2004 i got 'lag spikes' problems when i had zonealarm running, even though i actually had it on 'gaming-mode' or whatever its called.

I found out the problem was, yes you guessed it zone-alarm, it kept auto-updating all the f**cking time.

This could be a problem, but not to sure, but there should be some option to disable that and check you have it to allow gaming-mode

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

i remember tossing ZA for becoming a resource hog and other silly things.

[Captain Haddock]

a resource hog

eheh
Oink oink!

[Altobe]

For me this works well. Never a problem. Kaspersky Internet Security

http://www.kaspersky.com/

[ai]

I have the free version of ZoneAlarm so I don't even know if there is a gaming-mode thing, at least I haven't been able to find it. However there is an 'automatic updates' button. I switched to manual updating while playing hoping that this was the problem but of course it couldn't be that simple.

And as far as I know my ZoneAlarm runs just fine without hogging the resources, I had another firewall doing that a lot worse than my ZA (which was the reason I switched to another).

I had Kaspersky before but there was something I didn't like with it so I switched from that too. Maybe that was my resource hogger, don't quite remember. I've tried tons of different firewalls and tried to graps a firm grip of which were more popular and better than the others. Many recommended AVG and ZoneAlarm. But now that AVG has a complete pack it's something I've been looking into.

[Xeno]

I had ZA (pro) for 2 years on WinXP but eventually dumped it for COMODO Pro (free as in beer). It offers more control than ZA (ingoing and outgoing) and never seemed to slow things down like ZA did. If you don't figure out the ZA problem, go with COMODO.

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

[ai]

I had ZA (pro) for 2 years on WinXP but eventually dumped it for COMODO Pro (free as in beer). It offers more control than ZA (ingoing and outgoing) and never seemed to slow things down like ZA did. If you don't figure out the ZA problem, go with COMODO.

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Thanks, I'll think I try it.

[ai]

Btw, anyone who has tried or has more info/experience on these?

http://www.bitdefender.com/media/html/gamesafe.html
http://www.steelseries.com/steelsecurity