Low-resource firewall?

So after my router had a total informational meltdown which set it back to factory defaults, I decide that I really didn't feel like spending five hours reconfiguring the firewall in it. Instead I set it up with a basic layer of encryption and of course renamed the network and password protected it, and then I put ZoneAlarm on my two desktops.

For obvious reasons I want a software firewall on my laptop as well. Here's the problem: The laptop runs XP on a 1.7GHz Pentium Mobile CPU with 768MB RAM.

Does anyone else run ZoneAlarm on a weak hardware set, and how is it doing? Should I look at another firewall, or is it going to be quiet enough that I will still be able to use the laptop without taking too much of a performance hit?

 

Hello There,

I have ran zonealarm on a windows xp machine 1.2ghz cpu 768MB ram and it ran ok no problems just slow when updating. the other alternative is comodo or mcafee firewall.

 

That's all I needed to know. I just didn't want everything to slow down to a crawl when I installed ZoneAlarm. Thanks!

Off to install it I go.

 

g'day Mimsy

up until about 4 weeks ago i was using zone alarm firewall on this machine 1.5 gig processor 740 meg ram i found the new version 8 uses less resources than the old version 7. i only switched to comodo firewall + antivirus because AVG became to heavy for this to run.zone alarm was never a real issue hardly new it was there.

 

I have installed ZoneAlarm now, and it seems to be very low on resources so far. No noticeable slow-down yet, so I am happy.

In case you're interested, I run Avira on this laptop and it has never slowed it down at all, so if you ever want to abandon Comodo, Avira and ZoneAlarm seems to be a good combination.

 

thanks mimsy
i will keep that in mind this is the first time i have really tried any other type of security other than AVG + ZONE ALARM,i am going to stay with comodo for the moment to see how it pans out so far it has been pretty good.