I use Zone Labs Security Suite. It is the Best one...
Agnitum Outpost Pro - excellent !
Kerio - in Cyberscrub package - any comments appreciated! Thanks Not very informed on these matters...... well......er......DUMB!!!!!
I use Zonealarm & am happy with it. I am sure though that if someone wanted to get through the firewall they would & could. My Father always taught me that locks were there to honest people honest, that the thief would get through anyway.
Have a good day,
Normandie
no firewall!!
just using
netstat -n
to keep track of every connection
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I use Zonealarm & am happy with it. I am sure though that if someone wanted to get through the firewall they would & could. My Father always taught me that locks were there to honest people honest, that the thief would get through anyway.
Have a good day,
Normandie
Normandie, thanks! Good reminder for our heads - that can get very wound up by security matters Ultimately there IS no security! Only luck (chance) good or bad. You have a good day too.
Normandie, thanks! Good reminder for our heads - that can get very wound up by security mattersUltimately there IS no security! Only luck (chance) good or bad. You have a good day too.
Probably the best review of a firewall that I have ever read.
It may protect you from random everyday attacks, but if someone is determined to get in to your computer, they will find a way.
But then as long as you keep your computer clean of personal information, and do not partake in illegal activities on the net, then what the heck, let them get in.
Your right, but I know that I would rather have a 60% chance of security over a 0% chance.
Your right, but I know that I would rather have a 60% chance of security over a 0% chance.
Yeah, me too actually.
then what the heck, let them get in.
this dont sound right...
Your right, but I know that I would rather have a 60% chance of security over a 0% chance.
Right! We should make the effort or all hell could break loose Normal behaviour to strive for security in life. Yes indeed! Strong doors, good locks, fingers crossed
ZoneAlarm Pro and Linksys Router!
A dog and a shotgun are effect security. If the dog don't get 'em the shotgun surely will.
i having been trying the different firewall lately...
norton firewall
sygate firewall
outpost firewall...
i found that except for outpost pesonal firewall, the rest takes up a lot of resources...
norton firewall have many process images... which takes up a fair amount of resouces each... but added up together, they takes up a lot...
sygate firewall have a single process image... but it takes up more than 15,000K of memory usage alone...
outpost firewall have a single process image... and take its up much lesser compared to others... but outpost personal firewall seems very difficult to use... i takes some times to play around with it...
zonealarm have 2 process images... vsmon and zlclient... both take up around >6,000K of memory... rather huge...
is there any other good firewall...?
but outpost personal firewall seems very difficult to use... i takes some times to play around with it...
I tried Outpost Personal Firewall for a very short time a few weeks ago. The configuration first looked much different than any other firewall I had ever used, however after reading the guides (some of the best ever for a firewall) I understood it a little more, but ultimately it is rather old. That's the reason I went with ZoneAlarm (free edition) since there's not too much hassle configuring it, and after rridgely pointed out that the pop-up alerts that really annoyed me could be disabled I started to like it even more. Even though Zone Labs states it works with Win98 SE and above, I installed it on my Win98 system and runs fine. To me ZoneAlarm is perfect regardless of it's ram usage for the fact I don't have to fiddle with it by adding custom rules which got old and became rather unappealing over the past few years (Tiny, Kerio, Sygate).
I won't use Sygate Personal Firewall ever again since it has the tendency to start messing up after it's been installed for awhile, which could be days, weeks, months, it just depends. I had thought the problem with it was just my WinXP system, however when I dusted off my Win98 system to update it I was confronted with the same exact problems. If you want to know just how problematic it really is look on the Sygate Forums.
Andavari,
If a firewall is hard to configure it might be because it is complex and offers great flexibility so that can be a good thing.
Many firewalls are way to trivial, often to the point of having a ON and OFF button where you cant configure much at all. Windows firewalls in general are very silly and more toys than tools.
I am in love with iptables/netfilter SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) firewall under Linux.
Eldmannen the thing is that not everyone wants to worry about configuring a firewall. I think your right those firewalls are not as good as they could be but the average user isnt getting hacked without visiting porn site and downloading off of p2p. I know many people who would never even have any kind of firewall but I came over cleaned their computer of malware and then installed ZA and they never even know its running.
kerio also uses a lot of resources like zonealarm...
but i found something interesting...
I actually used to use that agumon. I think ZA and Computer Associates share technologies. If you buy ZA security suite the AV thats in it has the same Vet engine as EZ antivirus (or at least is used to).