Re: (OT) Zone Alarm Force Field

"Victek" <Victek@invalid.invalid> wrote in
news:g844r5$8sa$1@registered.motzarella.org:

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> "Cawshus" <YaWontFindIt@Here> wrote in message
> news:Xns9AFB60F9C70ABYaWontFindItHere@203.26.24.228...
>> I took up Zone Alarm's Patch Tuesday offer
>> and installed Force Field. So far, results
>> are underwhelming.
>>
>> Not only does Force Field run as a program,
>> it loads multiple instances of ISWMGR.exe
>> and loads a process ISWLDR.dat. The latter
>> on my PC uses 64 mbyte of data.
>>
>> You cannot have FF load your most recent
>> sites when reopening a session because
>> Force Field does not allow you to swith off
>> whatever it does that kills all data on
>> exit.
>>
>> Anti-Phishing is built in to decent
>> browsers these days so Force Field does
>> nothing for you.
>>
>> About the only useful feature I see is
>> 'Private Browser' that looks to kill
>> everything and not allow cookies (so what
>> stuff).
>>
>> It may prevent access to insecure sites but
>> Spyware Balster does this without hogging
>> memory.
>>
>> Does anyone have a good word for Force
>> Field?
>>
>>
> I believe there's also an option
> to launch an unprotected browser session so > that downloads and other
> changes you make won't be lost afterward.

Correct. It resides in the tray icon. The good news is that when Force
Field is unloaded, FF remembers its settings before Force Field was
opened.


> When you say the results
> are underwhelming I think you have to put that in some context.  A
> direct comparison with SandboxIE, etc. would be a good way to evaluate
> ZAFF IMHO.

Never tried Sandboxie but my understanding is that you can run anything
in Sandboxie. Force Field controls your browser. Does Sandboxie take up
heaps or RAM also!



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