TSGL: More Info on Armor Personal Firewall

[Don Penlington]

Mike wrote:
>which provided a link to the study by Matousec.com.>>


I had a look at that site with some interest. Any review site with 
associated referral commercial interests---which this obviously is, is 
unlikely in my view to be completely impartial.  That conclusion may, of 
course, be completely unjustified. But---hey---CA is the "most popular a-v 
software"???? Just who are we kidding? I can't swallow that one.

Interesting to see that his a-v reviews are of paid programs only. Maybe 
the free ones don't pay any commission for sales.  Perish the 
thought---quite ungentlemanly of me.

I see that firewalls are rated (only?) on "leak testing"---whatever that 
is. I'm not sure about it's real-world relevance. I thought significant 
memory leaks were largely a thing of the past.

And I also noted that "We have removed the latests results of Online Armor 
from our tables ...We will retest Online Armor and publish its real 
leak-testing results as soon as possible. We apologize to all our visitors 
and to all competitive vendors for publishing incorrect results of Online 
Armor. "

Well, at least he's frank about it.

All in all, an interesting site, but one I'd have some reservations about.

I looked back at an earlier issue of APC, Australia's premier computer 
magazine, and their firewall tests from a few months ago rated Zone Alarm 
up with the best.

Don Penlington





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