Author Topic: Firewall (Read 1196 times)

1776 · « **on:** January 04, 2002, 10:35:00 PM »

Need suggestions for a firewall for cable.

Thanks

Animal · « **Reply #1 on:** January 04, 2002, 10:56:00 PM »

Zone Alarm (zonelabs.com)
or Norton Internet Security (norton.com)

vatiAH · « **Reply #2 on:** January 04, 2002, 11:02:00 PM »

Norton Internet security

Kratzer · « **Reply #3 on:** January 05, 2002, 12:00:00 AM »

Zonealarm is great, gives you the same protection as Norton, but at the easily digestible price of zero dollars, while Norton will run you upwards of $70.

zonelabs.com

mrsid2 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 05, 2002, 02:48:00 AM »

Tiny personal firewall costs nothing and gives 10x more options to configure the firewall than Zonealarm. You can open and close port by port if you want - ZA has that only in the paid Pro version.
www.tinysoftware.com

DES · « **Reply #5 on:** January 05, 2002, 07:39:00 AM »

Sygate Personal Firewall is free and it automatically alt-tabs you to the desktop when AH versions change so you can give it permision to access the internet. With zonealarm I would have to keep resetting my pc untill it would leave an entry on the list I could give permision.
DES

Maverick · « **Reply #6 on:** January 05, 2002, 10:02:00 AM »

DES,

Where do you get this?? A web address would be most appreciated!

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Originally posted by DES:
Sygate Personal Firewall is free and it automatically alt-tabs you to the desktop when AH versions change so you can give it permision to access the internet. With zonealarm I would have to keep resetting my pc untill it would leave an entry on the list I could give permision.
DES

DES · « **Reply #7 on:** January 05, 2002, 02:23:00 PM »

Sorry about not putting in a link.
http://www.sygate.com/swat/free/default.php

Scroll down the page to home solutions. It's free for personal use.
DES

Kratzer · « **Reply #8 on:** January 06, 2002, 03:19:00 PM »

DES, can you give a program access prior to running it?

Also, does anyone have links to articles comparing these products to zonealarm and norton?

Thanks!

DES · « **Reply #9 on:** January 06, 2002, 04:15:00 PM »

I don't see a way to give access prior to launch. I've always just launched a program and sygate minimized it to the taskbar and put up a box to give permision. I've not had a program lock my pc yet and I play a lot of different games over the internet.
DES

mrsid2 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 06, 2002, 05:53:00 PM »

Tiny Personal FW lets you configure access rules also beforehand. You just click on 'create new rule' give the options for access you want, choose the program you want the rule to handle and youre done.

-ammo- · « **Reply #11 on:** January 06, 2002, 08:49:00 PM »

Hey DES, I DL'ed the personal firewall and thought it was completely free but when the agreement window promt came up during install, it saiid 30 days only. Is it free or not?

DES · « **Reply #12 on:** January 07, 2002, 06:33:00 AM »

Ammo are you sure you didn't download the pro version? I seem to remember when you first install there was an option where you had to put personal use also. It's a while since I installed so I don't remember the step by step but it is free if you have the right version.
DES

DES · « **Reply #13 on:** January 07, 2002, 06:50:00 AM »

Just checked and it's free for personal use and 30 days trial for buisness so you must have set it up for business use?
DES

Kratzer · « **Reply #14 on:** January 07, 2002, 02:17:00 PM »

I'm going to give it a try, see if I prefer it to Zonealarm.