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Inevitable

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im using Sygate its quite impressive.Zonealarm was gr8 till v5 which screws up internet.
What say the rest of u ppl?

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Kerio. It takes a few days of annoying pop ups, but then you are set. It’s a paranoiac program, but that’s safer surely.
http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html

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I tried Sygate Personal Firewall for a few weeks and never had any problems with it except of course the popups (each program accessing the internet would need clearance) for the first day or so. I was looking for a graphical interface that would display a few days or a weeks d/l and u/l speeds which it did not have, or I could not find, so I removed it.
 
I am using kerio and very happy

-soooo easy to use
-tiny programme
-doesnt hog your resources at all

i used black ice which was nice but had a lot of interesting but unneccesary stuff

kerio[;)]
 
Im using McAfee Internet Security, Im also very happy with it so far.

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Also used ZoneAlarm until recently. Got hold of an old P1-233 with 32megs of memory and a 1Gig HD and installed SmoothWall on it. Very happy with the results, nice web-based interface and works well (I have 2x workstations and 1x server permanently hanging off it).

Has a whole bunch of other features that may (or may not) be useful such as auto dns update, proxy server, DHCP et al.

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by passif</i>
<br />Also used ZoneAlarm until recently. Got hold of an old P1-233 with 32megs of memory and a 1Gig HD and installed SmoothWall on it. Very happy with the results, nice web-based interface and works well (I have 2x workstations and 1x server permanently hanging off it).

Has a whole bunch of other features that may (or may not) be useful such as auto dns update, proxy server, DHCP et al.

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I'm currently using a PII configured with winxp and zonealarm as a firewall. This is obviously overkill and a pain to maintain due to xp's continuous exploit vulnerability. I've been thinking of turning it into a smoothwall box. Smoothwall should work with an internal PCI ISDN adapter?

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passif,

I've been going through the smoothwall docs but cant find anything about timed disconnections i.e. for callmore time. Can smoothwall do this?


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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by hArTh</i>
<br />I've been going through the smoothwall docs but cant find anything about timed disconnections i.e. for callmore time. Can smoothwall do this?
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To be honest, I don't know. I've never set up the ISDN connection with Smoothwall, my experience with it was due to an excellent write-up re SmoothWall and MyWireless (which is why I gave it a try). Hopefully one of the Smoothwall expert users can answer this one.

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I found the following link on the SmoothWall forum, apparently it can be done. http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2187 and also http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4027
 
I ran Kerio Personal Firewall for several months, and though I liked it, I found it rather buggy - not good for a firewall. It interefered with my Anivirus, and eventually, one version bluescreened XP every time I put a USB drive in (on two different computers. I uninstalled it immediately.

I've been using Sygate Personal Firewall since. While it isn't as cool from an interface point of view, it's been 100% stable, and does the job perfectly.
 
Thats why Sygate is still ranked No.1 (as a personal firewall) [:)]

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do i have to set sygate up with bittorent. all i did was set it to allow bitcomet which is my bittorent client.is that ok?
ive already opened ports through windows xp.

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<br />do i have to set sygate up with bittorent. all i did was set it to allow bitcomet which is my bittorent client.is that ok?
ive already opened ports through windows xp.
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I use BitSpirit, had no hassles - just allowed it out.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by hArTh</i>
<br />passif,

I've been going through the smoothwall docs but cant find anything about timed disconnections i.e. for callmore time. Can smoothwall do this?
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you should look out side of those and look for other users addons.

Smoothwall can do that easily, you simply add an entry to crontab

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Luke7777</i>
<br />It's got a bug. It allowed caps lock to get thru :-)
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Like Luke7777 said.

Script kiddies almost always communicate in caps. So if your firewall isn't caps safe you're going to get rooted in double quick time.


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PC-Cillin on my XP connected to MyWireless. I ran all the firewall test applications and it checks out fine. I think it came with my Mecer modem. Updates itself virtually every day.



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