Zonealarm question

I'm using free ZoneAlarm version:5.5.094.000 because from what I've read
it's not bloated and runs smoothly. However, I'm curious if I should
update to the latest version 7.5.?? (not exactly sure what the latest
number is) My reasoning is that, well, when I think about the various
patches for security holes in say, a web browser like IE, or FF,
wouldn't the newer versions of ZA be better because similar types of
holes may have been fixed in the newer versions?

(pardon my poor writing skills, I'm not the best)

Thanks for your help

 

Security is a practice/process, and it's based on your ability in part to
not put the computer at risks. If the computer gets compromised, it is the
end-user that has had involvement in it someway, with the happy fingers to
point and click with the mouse.

http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

ZA is ok, it has it's purpose, but it's not a stops all and ends all
solution, nothing is that as long as it's running with the operating system.
If the O/S can be attacked, then anything running with the O/S can be
attacked too.

You should try to secure/harden the O/S to attack as much as possible. The
buck stops with the O/S, and your ability to keep yourself and the computer
out of trouble, based on your actions/habits.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/winxpsecuritychecklist.htm

 

Only update if you need the features of the latest version. Otherwise,
leave it be.

 

Hey.

As you can see, I'm breaking my resolutions left and right. But
the first 2 were the least important anyway.

Nothing has changed in internet transmission protocols in
decades. The new crap they keep adding to the web does not
affect the basic structure. IMO, any fw made in the last 5 or so
years does not need to be updated - unless you have to have some
stupid new convenience feature.

Updating /in general/ is just a scam. Of course, ZA is free, so
it's less of a scam, but still.

--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

that went out the window...

haven't noted any since Jan. 1st... or have I?

gun.

don't shoot anyone...

Fit into what?? and WHy.... (there
s was a loaded psychological... oh nevermind it's too late to even go there)

hour orgy.

Why not! Hey, you can't buy love, but the rest is negotiable... (if you
don't hurry up though, you may need Euros)

Uh, I recommend you try this out: http://crazymeds.us/cymbalta.html

I'll miss your... *cough* witty retorts

 

Thanatoid said.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3 hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

C'mon mate, #1. through #6. sounds good
#7. not so good .
Who knows , The New Year may mean that you will get the 5 best looking Las
Vegas hookers for free , now wouldnt that be something ?
Happy New Year to you .
James

 

It's a joke.

I have a feeling they won't be accepted here due to National
Pride, but I have them.

Among the best, isn't it?

I've been on medications for over 15 years. It helps me to
function, but it doesn't make me stop hating the world and
everything in it, starting with me.

You rat.

--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

If you were inside my head, it would sound the best of all.

It /would/ be, but why do you say that? I don't get it.



--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

What dont you get ??
James

 

Sounds like a plan, only in #07 I'd substitute "my hard cock"
for "gun"; "gorgeous hooker's" before "mouth"; and "slam headboard
all weekend" for "pull trigger"; unless, "pull trigger" is a
metaphoric sexual innuendo reference. Really, everything is?

Then... maybe $5 or so worth of 25¢ slots - *but* *no* *more*!
The reason for that is because it is known that addictions
[to wit, to gambling] have a tendency to replace sex as stimuli
for the brain's production of dopamine and beta-endorphins.

And then that would just be an investment to scope out some
more gorgeous girls, because everyone knows that when you're
gettng laid, it's way easier to get laid... and so it goes.

One of life's stranger paradoxes which triggers the enigmatic
females' subconscious engrams.

Gotta save up, because the really good hookers are charging
about $500 these days. Now, that'd be enuf cause to make someone
on minimum wage depressed - but more optimistically, one could
always quit smoking and just save-up? (A really savvy geek would
rig the room with camera/s, that way, one rendezvous and a decent
blow-up doll could last a lifetime!!!) It'd be like a sexual
Mecca pilgrimage? Hey! I wonder if there's a country song about
that already? <anxious moment> Britney Spears, here's your
ticket to a comeback concert because country fans like fat chicks.

Have you ever wondered about that? Especially out West [USA]...
Skinny little cowboys always have a big fat wife in their pickup
trucks... Maybe that's why "Brokeback Mountain" made any money
at all? I mean, who in their right mind would want to spend $10
and 2 hours on 2 cowboys getting their gay on? Boggles the mind.

LOL!

--

"I don't know the key to success; but, the
key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-- Bill Cosby, Ed.D. (The Jello Guy)

http://www.fartingguy.com/snake.html

 

I'm gay and the movie freaked ME out!
so I wonder why the hell it got so popular. On another note: Ang Lee
actually directed 'The Hulk' which came out just a few years ago. He
made a comic action movie into something even my Mom and Stepfather
would see, (it had some good acting going on, and direction, so on).

Anyhoo, back to ripping more CD's to the computer...

 

Since when do hookers work for free? And why would they start
doing it /en masse/ in 2008?


--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

Bucky Breeder <>
wrote in

I'll be /real/ lucky if I can last the 3 hours being 52 and
after 15 years on Prozac. It's not AT ALL like being 15 and
/not/ depressed.

I do not have the addiction gene. I'm sure life would be a lot
more interesting if I did.

I have a feeling many of those women were of normal weight when
they snared their hubbies. Time does wonders, /kind of/.

Agreed. The gay propaganda machine has really been doing wonders
in the last 20 years, hasn't it? "1 in 10". Right.


--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

08. Remind self to buy bullets next time.

 

That WAS pretty funny, but I don't forget stuff like that.


--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

You should think about checking yourself into an asylum. It might help.

 

I was just trying to think of a way *out* of that scenario. I can't
imagine having having such a good time and not wanting to repeat it.

Whatever you have to return to afterward must be pretty awful... : \

And don't forget a huuuge tip for the lady in housekeeping. ; )

 

I agree,
I've got some older versions of Zone Alarm on a few of my machines
and they work perfectly.

I once did try upgrading to the newest version but ended up having
problems...
so just went back

 

Says some guy who believes Emperor Ming controls the
entire alternate universe? ~d^%

LOL! We actually have a rather nice nightclub locally
called "The Asylum".

--

"At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, but once
you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot and it was great!'
appear in a magazine like Cosmo, I'd expect many people to
jump on the bandwagon." -- David Levy, Ph.D.; October 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/wid/11915829

 

It is. It's called life as experienced by a person with clinical
depression.

I should have kept my NYR to myself. They have generated WAY too
much discussion. It's just that alt.suicide.holiday has become
totally insufferable and I thought it would be amusing (yes, I
find the whole thing as amusing as anything else by now, I have
been living with it for 42 years but I do have perspective).

Hey, what happened to yer nose?


--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.