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Thread ID: 61278	2005-08-30 13:23:00	What is the best firewall(software)	Bazman (6587)	Press F1

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384848	2005-08-31 02:15:00	MY god Zone Alarm!, let me guess you guys also run Norton’s antivirus? Zone Alarm interferes with many P2P and other programs which cannot be configured out, and its system overhead is much higher than many other firewalls. Lets just say a few of the recommendations in some of these magazines make me smile. If you have never used anything else then I can see why ZA might seem good. The piggiest computers I have ever worked on use ZA and or Norton’s, Connectivity problems are usually fixed by “uninstalling ZA and get something better” statements. Id recommend "Sonic wall" for a small environment and "Juniper" for large corporate environments. If your a Home user with XP, then the built in firewall with SP2 is actually not bad (ie built in stealth, won’t reply to pings etc), and won't annoy you every 6 seconds. Never heard of Sonic or Jupiner. Are they freeware? or trial-version? Do you think they are just as good or better than ZoneAlarm and Outpost Sygate?	Bazman (6587)
384849	2005-09-01 03:27:00	Never heard of Sonic or Jupiner. Are they freeware? or trial-version? Do you think they are just as good or better than ZoneAlarm and Outpost Sygate? Unfortunately I don't think either offer a trail version. The BIG question is what are you trying to protect? a home PC or a serious business PC/Network? If its home, then just save yourself headaches and turn on your XP firewall (assuming its XP). If its a serious business computer/Network, you may want to look at hardware firewalls etc, certainly not ZA. ZA is basically the "Kazaa" of firewalls (very common but very crappy) of course in my opinion. You really need to post what your trying to protect, to get a informed answer from anyone. I used to run Syshield firewall which I found fairly good also, and they have a trail version. (see also many other trial firewalls here) www.pcworld.com	Battleneter (60)
384850	2005-09-01 04:09:00	The piggiest computers I have ever worked on use ZA and or Norton’s, Connectivity problems are usually fixed by “uninstalling ZA and get something better” statements. If your a Home user with XP, then the built in firewall with SP2 is actually not bad (ie built in stealth, won’t reply to pings etc), and won't annoy you every 6 seconds. Well I dont agree with the first statement at all........'piggiest' my ass i do agree that staying awy from norton in any shape/form is very smart.....but zone is a fine firewall.......as for fixing connectiion issues by 'uninstallin zone' well that'd only be the ignorant leading the blind i'd say.......... and lol@ the second statement .......hahah.......i'd rather run zone at least it lets you know if any baddie is tryin to access the net from inside your pc ......and it doesn't annoy me EVER.......gawd...	drcspy (146)
384851	2005-09-01 06:36:00	I've used Kerio firewall for quite a while thru' several versions and it's never caused any problems for me. I don't use P2P tho'. Updates are easy, there's a help forum, and Kerio 4.0.2 passes ShieldsUp fully stealthed. Of course, it's a personal choice...... :2cents:	kakapo (5362)
384852	2005-09-01 07:18:00	zonealarm is what ive been using for years, pretty easy to set up, just gotta take some time and go through all the settings	Prescott (11)
384853	2005-09-01 10:14:00	Quote: If your a Home user with XP, then the built in firewall with SP2 is actually not bad (ie built in stealth, won’t reply to pings etc), and won't annoy you every 6 seconds . XPs firewall is a joke and everybody knows that . It only stops incoming threats not outgoing . So you could get a disk from a friend etc,Which has stuff on it and then it can communicate back to the internet and you would be stuffed as the XP firewall wont stop it as it only works one way (incomeing only,not outgoing) . You could go to a lan and get infected as well and be stuffed as well . A half pie job done yet again from Microsoft . :groan: Next You will say IE is the best . :yuck: Zone Alarm rocks,its free with free updates, its got stealth mode,incoming and outgoing protection . I would have thought anybody would wont to know whats happening to their computer . Better to be alerted then not know,and then wonder whats happened to their computer afterwards when its to late .	memphis (2869)
384854	2005-09-01 10:17:00	granted the GUI of ZA is slow and bulky but it dos function fine . tho i have had problems with it when used with nortons, nortons caused other problems so it got removed and ZA has worked fine ever since . thats says something about nortons ;) for home uses ZA is fine unless they have a really slow pc (in which case its often better to fix the pc !) and one of the other main ones will work fine . out of all the pc's and problems i've seen i can't rember a single ZA related Connectivity problem (excludeing VPN which at one stage the free ver didn't support) . at worse a corupt application list or uninstall problem which the old ones where infamous for . at the end of the day any firewall will do as long as they know how to use it . btw the MS one (sp2) is horrible, a lot of people let everything straight through (its not a simple thing to find, to change what program you let through) and it automaticly lets a lot through by default which kinda defeats the whole point of having it .	tweak'e (69)
384855	2005-09-01 12:38:00	ZA is good - been using it for years on many different Windows versions - only prob I've ever had was it corrupting its database a couple of times and it forgot all the permissions... Nothing's perfect... :)	HadO (796)
384856	2005-09-01 12:44:00	Stupidly I was surfing the net for a few days without a firewall(!). I thought there was one on the router, but it doesn't. But we all of our computers have private IP addresses or something my father said so it would still be difficult for hackers to get in. Well lo and behold, I don't know if I got hacked, but did get some nasty viruses which took a good part of a weekend to get rid of and get my system entirely bug-free again. I am now running ZoneAlarm Pro, and I do admit, it's a friends copy, I do intend to buy a full version myself when the new one comes out, but I wanted a "really good" firewall NOW, eventhough I took some illegal ways to get it, I can't afford my PC being run over with viruses and hackers coz I really need it to do assignments on it. Maybe for good measure I might add the best "free" :) firewall that's out there as an extra precaution. But i don't want too many resources being taken up and so far ZA has done everything like you guys says it does. Though it asks for a lot of allow/deny confirmations. I think the XP firewall is a good start, but it's not enough. Maybe Windows Vista will have a firewall that's got the whole package :D	Bazman (6587)
384857	2005-09-01 12:48:00	I wouldn't bother buying it unless you want to for some specific reason - the free version does everything you should need. The mail and AV functions can be taken care of with AVGFree :)	HadO (796)
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