What's Is your FIREWALL?

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teknoT42 · #1 Post by **teknoT42** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:57 am

Please Vote, It's interesting to bring up a discussion and see other's perspectives

Personally, I think ZoneAlarm is the best and will always be the best!!
I've read that Outpost is spose to be top as well but I have no idea how to configure the laws!

hiengu · #2 Post by **hiengu** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:59 am

My router is my firewall, but I think XP SP2 installs a software firewall.

teknoT42 · #3 Post by **teknoT42** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:32 am

hiengu wrote:My router is my firewall, but I think XP SP2 installs a software firewall.

I wouldn't rely on the XP firewall IMO

hiengu · #4 Post by **hiengu** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:35 am

I guess that's what I expected. I am always behind a hardware firewall, although I imagine a software firewall would be useful at all the WIFI hotspots such as at a University, Cafe or Library.

Most people I know use Zone Alarm.

Plinkerton · #5 Post by **Plinkerton** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:50 am

I have a router hardware firewall at home I think, and I use ZoneAlarm, but only the downloaded free version. Do I need something else? I also use Norton (but I don't think that has a firewall) and I'm not using SP2.

teknoT42 · #6 Post by **teknoT42** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:14 am

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RCube · #7 Post by **RCube** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:14 am

teknoT42 wrote:
hiengu wrote:My router is my firewall, but I think XP SP2 installs a software firewall.
I wouldn't rely on the XP firewall IMO

whats wrong with the xp firewall?

teknoT42 · #8 Post by **teknoT42** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:17 am

reading reviews

lfeagan · #9 Post by **lfeagan** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:20 am

Is this some sort of joke? I can't imagine me ever running anything but OpenBSD for a long time to come. The hardware I run it on is a Soekris net4801.

tylerdurden2323 · #10 Post by **tylerdurden2323** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:45 am

lfeagan wrote:Is this some sort of joke? I can't imagine me ever running anything but OpenBSD for a long time to come. The hardware I run it on is a Soekris net4801.

the poll is quite clear on asking "What Firewall are you running on your thinkpad?" if your running an external harware firewall thats fine. Open up a new poll on it. I personally run tiny personal firewall http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2? ... 6_f_netsec

califas · #11 Post by **califas** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:56 am

currently XP SP2 firewall with Belkin router

usually ZoneAlarm Pro with Belkin router

apoll0 · #12 Post by **apoll0** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:57 am

I don't need no stinking firewall. maybe you should add that as another option.

Greg Gebhardt · #13 Post by **Greg Gebhardt** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:01 am

I use the complete Norton package with firewall. I have it on all of my computers and have never had a problem. It may cost more but I can depend on Norton to update often and it worth every penny.

lfeagan · #14 Post by **lfeagan** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:47 am

apoll0 wrote:I don't need no stinking firewall. maybe you should add that as another option.

Yeah, no joke, I disabled the dumb XP SP2 firewall.

Leeper · #15 Post by **Leeper** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:37 pm

XP SP2 firewall.

I am interested in why folks don't like the SP2 app.

gcchatel · #16 Post by **gcchatel** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 3:25 pm

Greg, if you actually look up some tests of the norton suite, you might want to reconsider. I know I did, zonealarm does a wonderful job. For all of you who use hardware firewalls, that's great and i do too, but I travel a lot and can't always ensure a hardware firewall so software becomes necessary.

Gael

#17 Post by **K. Eng** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 3:38 pm

Sadly I am using the SP2 firewall. I don't want to pay for another one.

#18 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:59 pm

The XP firewall is not as advanced as some of the good third party stuff (Symantec Client Security Corporate for example). But if you have a good Anti-Virus and no firewall, consider using the XP firewall. It does work. Just spend some time on the setup. It can get in the way of FTP and VPN if you don't set it properly. Symantec Client Security is better in this respect. ... JDHurst

teknoT42 · #19 Post by **teknoT42** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:40 pm

K. Eng wrote:Sadly I am using the SP2 firewall. I don't want to pay for another one.

You can download the free versions of zonealarm
www.zonelabs.com

kerio is also good
www.kerio.com

leesiulung · #20 Post by **leesiulung** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:22 am

I am a user of Zone Alarm Pro, but have recently discovered that it has a serious bug. With ZA Pro on, you might get incomplete web page loads and file downloads. This happened to me and I cannot seem to resolve this with the newest update from ZoneAlarm.com.

You can find a thread with this problem here:
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/boar ... 737#M13737

So what do I think about ZA pro, it is great until this bug appeared. This is a serious bug and I would not recommend it to anyone until they fix this and that better be fast as a firewall is useless if I have to turn it off everytime I download a file...

Plinkerton · #21 Post by **Plinkerton** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:26 am

I use the free ZoneAlarm, and it seems to work great. No problems at all.

puco · #22 Post by **puco** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:35 am

From what I heard the SP2 firewall ist really crap. The packet filter lets pass a few packets before kicking in, regardless of rules. So you cannot stop banner extraction. It cannot drop packets and all ports seem open. This is only stuff that I heard and not tested since I don't use a firewall ATM. But if you are concerned you should read a bit into it.

Normally I only use the XP integrated firewall or any packet filer (as Kerio WinRoute) and drop all SYN packets.

kjarrett · #23 Post by **kjarrett** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:20 am

Software firewall: Zone Alarm Pro
Hardware firewall: DI-624 router

-kj-

sugo · #24 Post by **sugo** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:01 pm

Have been using Kerio version 2.15 on my old laptop for a long time. Too bad it has conflicts with UltraNav driver.

I just want a simple rule based firewall. I tried half a dozen software firewalls, most of them are memory hog that takes up 20MB+ RAM. Some of them do not work with VPN and some of them are extremely complicated to setup.

Now I use Outpost pro. It's the closest I could find that works well for me.

k3vb0t · #25 Post by **k3vb0t** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:38 pm

ZoneAlarm Free + DI-624 Wireless router

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