Not perfect, but the best in the wrong category

Pros: I am using Patrol for the last 6 months and sincerely believe that this is a technological gem that for whatever reasons has not yet been discovered by the main stream. After reading sloppybones post I killed Patrol with Ctr-Alt-Del (my 5 years old coul do that) and it popped back asking if I want to restart it. I think that is pretty good!

Diamond Security has completely different functionality and certainly does not have any of Patrol, but I think that they would work well together. I do not understand why they call Patrol a firewall. I think in a conventional sense a free ZA is much, much better firewall. BUT! without Patrol any firewall in the hands of 99% of us is just a guessing game as far as authorization of applications is concerned. I use Patrol side by side with ZA. I do not know any program that authenticates components in real time.

Cons: I guess the only problem with Patrol is that it is slows you down in the first few minutes after installation. I wish they would install the local database of some common components, when they install the program. Or, may be that just the price to pay for real-time. I think that it should not be in a firewalls category, but not sure which place would be appropriate.

Posted: 24-Apr-2005 06:00:59 AM