Author Topic: Firewalls (Read 302 times)

Enduro · « **on:** July 15, 2006, 12:15:12 PM »

Guys,
What firewall would you suggest other users try?

I've used ZoneAlarm--it always seemed to be a heavy program.

I used the 10-day free trial of Lavasoft's PERSONAL FIREWALL. Seemed to be resource-friendly. If I purchase it, at least the $30 is going to the people that offered Ad-Aware to us for free all this time.

Am open to other options (free is always good

).

Thanks!

Enduro · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2006, 01:02:32 PM »

I just installed the free firewall from Comodo. Seems resource-friendly, so far.

Man, this company offers everything free. lol.

http://www.comodogroup.com/products/free_products.html

wrag · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2006, 03:41:55 PM »

I was using ZoneAlarm but it seemed to be affecting my machines whie in AH.

Using Kerio now. Seems to be much like ZoneAlarm but??? Claims to have a lower overhead and also seems less intrusive.

Seems to work well with AH.

bbosen · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2006, 06:53:38 PM »

I just use a NAT router between my LAN and all of my computers. No personal firewalls in any of the computers at all. I disable the Windows XP firewall.

And then..... I am very, Very, VERY careful.

-Bob Bosen-

-Peabody-

Here's a video I made on this subject:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6916967087235118659&q=nat+routers&time=15000

eagl · « **Reply #4 on:** July 17, 2006, 04:21:27 AM »

I use a broadband router and usually leave windows firewall enabled. I used to use "blackice defender" because it had great logging and customization features, but it (and zonealarm) never once detected an intrusion attempt after I started using the router so I quit using add-on software firewalls.

If I was really concerned I'd run a honeypot on an otherwise unused machine here in order to catch problems within my own lan, but so far I haven't felt the need to do so. A properly locked down broadband router with NAT will block pretty much everything you do not explicitly allow yourself.

That said, nothing protects you from yourself and if you click "yes" when the porn video asks you to run something in order to get the superspecial codec, then you get what you deserve...

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2006, 06:10:21 AM »

For gaming the router is plenty. For browsing I usually just use the Windows firewall and a nifty little utility called NMap to keep track of my port traffic.

Tigger29 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2006, 02:15:28 PM »

Yeah just go buy youself a NAT router

just search the internet you can find a cheap little dlink for $10-20

I think i saw one on sale at tigerdirect.com for $15 or so with 802.11g wireless

then you can turn off windows firewall, and with a good anti-virus and anti-spy/adware software you should be fine, as long as you're careful.

I use avast antivirus (free) and a registered copy of ad-aware.

Enduro · « **Reply #7 on:** July 17, 2006, 09:13:18 PM »

cc. I'll consider changing routers, but not wireless.

Tigger,
Avast free? I'm using Avast 4 Pro. Seems to be good anti-virus software. Maybe I'll switch to the free version after my 1-yr license has expired.