On Jan 13, 2008 8:11 PM, Dr Skip <drskip@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you be more precise? I haven't installed it, but could use some detailed
> info to decide. The one thing I used to like about Sygate is that it would pop
> up each time something new tried to come in or go out and you could choose no,
> this time, or all the time permission.

Then you may like Comodo.

> No doubt MS has so many things trying to phone home (and which of them is truly
> blocked by the MS firewall and which have hard coded exemptions?) that it would
> embarrass them if it alerted the user, especially Media Center stuff and its
> services...
>
> Trust nothing, approve only what you need... ;-)

I do not really care so such about the "Phone Home" thingy since I highly doubt
it is really the case. It is not that I trust Microsoft so much but I
think it is not
worth their efforts to do that. On the other hand, Google may be of
more concerns
since they are reading my Gmail (with targeted ads on the side). Again the easy
of use with Gmail outweights the privacy concerns.

Xiaofan
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