Jetico Personal Firewall freeware asks way to many questions

[Linda Sands]

Is there an easy way to get Jetico Personal Firewall to only ask ONCE (like
Zone Alarm or Sygate Personal Firewall does)?

For example, when I run CCleaner freeware, Jetico is welcome to ask if I
want to run it but with the "remember" button set, Jetico should LEARN that
I want CCleaner to run without asking me again. Yet every time CCleaner
runs, Jetico asks me again (even with the Remember button selected).

Same thing with Firefox freeware, PeerGuardian freeware, Windows update,
etc.

There MUST be a way to gell Jetico Personal Firewall to just Remember
(really remember) the3 previous answer .. isn't there?

[Sebastian G.]

Linda Sands wrote:


> There MUST be a way to gell Jetico Personal Firewall to just Remember
> (really remember) the3 previous answer .. isn't there?


Hm... why don't you simply uninstall it? Why did you even install it in
first place?

[Lord Possum]

In article <96sPi.1575$Pv2.1234@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net> ,
lshorsetrainer@sbcglobal.net says...
> Is there an easy way to get Jetico Personal Firewall to only ask ONCE (like
> Zone Alarm or Sygate Personal Firewall does)? [snip]
=======================
Same problem; I uninstalled it.

Same problem with Comodo, too; I uninstalled it.

Zone Alarm and Sygate both have become really bloated, and think too
long about things.

Currently using Netveda Safety Net, and am pleased with it. Only
8MB or so installed

Lord Possum

[goarilla]

Linda Sands wrote:
> Is there an easy way to get Jetico Personal Firewall to only ask ONCE (like
> Zone Alarm or Sygate Personal Firewall does)?
>
> For example, when I run CCleaner freeware, Jetico is welcome to ask if I
> want to run it but with the "remember" button set, Jetico should LEARN that
> I want CCleaner to run without asking me again. Yet every time CCleaner
> runs, Jetico asks me again (even with the Remember button selected).
>
> Same thing with Firefox freeware, PeerGuardian freeware, Windows update,
> etc.
>
> There MUST be a way to gell Jetico Personal Firewall to just Remember
> (really remember) the3 previous answer .. isn't there?

you should read the documentation and edit the default optimum
protection security policy
or you can just use another security policy like allow all but that
sorta defeats the
purpose of a personal firewall

[AlleyCat]

In article <MPG.21786326c330ab3a9896ff@netnews.insightbb.com> ,
Lord_Possum@yahoo.com says...
> In article <96sPi.1575$Pv2.1234@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net> ,
> lshorsetrainer@sbcglobal.net says...
> > Is there an easy way to get Jetico Personal Firewall to only ask ONCE (like
> > Zone Alarm or Sygate Personal Firewall does)? [snip]
> =======================
> Same problem; I uninstalled it.
>
> Same problem with Comodo, too; I uninstalled it.
>
> Zone Alarm and Sygate both have become really bloated, and think too
> long about things.
>
> Currently using Netveda Safety Net, and am pleased with it. Only
> 8MB or so installed

Is that particularly small for a Firewall? I'm not sure your description
of Sygate being "really bloated", is entirely accurate. I'm not pushing
or endorsing Sygate, but my installation is 12 megs. That's not that
bloated IMO. If it, or any software package, does what it advertises, 4
megs doesn't make THAT much of a difference. I've tried most "endorsed"
firewalls, but I always seem to "go back" to Sygate.

Al

>
> Lord Possum
>

[Sebastian G.]

goarilla wrote:


> or you can just use another security policy like allow all but that
> sorta defeats the
> purpose of a personal firewall


AFAWK the purpose of a "personal firewall" is to **** up the network
connection, which is obviously does.

[Lord Possum]

In article <MPG.21789728da8e9ed7989927@newsgroups.comcast.net >,
al@aohell.com says...

>Is that particularly small for a Firewall? I'm not sure your
>description of Sygate being "really bloated", is entirely accurate.
>I'm not pushing or endorsing Sygate, but my installation is 12 megs.
>That's not that bloated IMO. If it, or any software package, does
>what it advertises, 4 megs doesn't make THAT much of a difference.
>I've tried most "endorsed" firewalls, but I always seem to "go
>back" to Sygate. Al
============================

One of the criteria I employ in judging a program's worth is not only
the installed size, but the amount of Registry entries, and the
number of functions requiring 'think' power ... a drain on RAM
resources. Sygate is heavy than many in that respect.

And, as far as installed size ... 12MB compared to 8MB tells me
immediately that Sygate is 50% bigger, while doing no more or any
better than what I use. That apparently will not mean much to those
who don't care how much room a program takes up, but the extra 4MB
means more of something else for me. And, in the end result, NetVeda
is faster.

Lord Possum

[Double Z]

don't mind me

[AlleyCat]

In article <MPG.21797b226da1f0d7989700@netnews.insightbb.com> ,
Lord_Possum@yahoo.com says...
> In article <MPG.21789728da8e9ed7989927@newsgroups.comcast.net >,
> al@aohell.com says...
>
> >Is that particularly small for a Firewall? I'm not sure your
> >description of Sygate being "really bloated", is entirely accurate.
> >I'm not pushing or endorsing Sygate, but my installation is 12 megs.
> >That's not that bloated IMO. If it, or any software package, does
> >what it advertises, 4 megs doesn't make THAT much of a difference.
> >I've tried most "endorsed" firewalls, but I always seem to "go
> >back" to Sygate. Al
> ============================
>
> One of the criteria I employ in judging a program's worth is not only
> the installed size, but the amount of Registry entries, and the
> number of functions requiring 'think' power ... a drain on RAM
> resources. Sygate is heavy than many in that respect.
>
> And, as far as installed size ... 12MB compared to 8MB tells me
> immediately that Sygate is 50% bigger, while doing no more or any
> better than what I use. That apparently will not mean much to those
> who don't care how much room a program takes up, but the extra 4MB
> means more of something else for me. And, in the end result, NetVeda
> is faster.
>
> Lord Possum
>

I've had this conversation with others in the past and found that, with
the "right" equipment, 4megs of hard drive space and 2 or 3 megs of RAM
is not very much. I'm running a 2.8GHz Pentium D with 2 Gigs of RAM. I
know not everyone has these resources, but I believe most people
frequenting this newsgroup looking for software, are probably people
that are pretty computer savvy and do have newer hardware which will run
most any of the software being discussed about here. It seems apropos
that someone here could come up with a list of software with attributes
pertaining to RAM and hard drive space usage. I'm sure there's a website
that does this, but I'm not familiar with one.

Al

[Sebastian G.]

hmmm@hmmm.org wrote:

> Aaron <aaronnewsgroup@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns99C8A3502A20Faaronnewsgroup@85.214.62.108:
>
>> Moreover OA is not just a firewall but includes HIPS (but so does the
>> Comodo v3 but that's in beta). I personally find OA one of the more
>> usable HIPS for ordinary users.


HIPS is nonsense, and even HIDS is for anyone but ordinary users. At any
rate, the horribly broken and unsuable software products you're discussing
only include signature-based engines, which is quite useless.

> OA also gets an excellent rating from Matousec.


Hm... isn't that rather a bad thing?

> Let's see what the free
> version gets. ZA Pro has a very good rating while ZA free has a very poor
> rating. The latest version of ZA Pro uses about 80 mg ram!


WTF? I knew this software was totally bad, but THAT bad...