What is the lightest Firewall?

[NeHoMaR]

Jees, everyones going "suite" these days. Even system mechanic is incorporating a virus scanner now.

Time to visit oldversion.com......

:woot: Good! :D

[Redestium]

And for those who don't know...

NAT == Network Address Translation

It is a method of rerouting traffic from one IP address (WAN - Wide Area Network) given from your ISP to you local machines connected to the router using internal dummy IP addresses. These internal IPs are only visible to people on your network and invisible to the net.

[bull]

I would have to throw a vote in for Sygate. I used Zap for a long time. I recently switched to Sygate and am not lookin' back. I loads much faster, seems to use less beef and supplies the outbound protection that I want.

[b3ta]

Not much is lighter than the Firewall in Windows XP SP2. It's a real winner.

[haaga]

I happen to like Kerio PF also. It's small, runs smoothly and doesn't load your computer. :)

[iascoot]

ive been trying firewalls recently

was using Latest

Zone Alarm.. deleted.. didnt like shareaza.. would crash whole computer.

Outpost... resource hog

Currently: Norton Firewall 2004, Crap.. CRAP

so am looking for another :p

[Bearded Kirklander]

I have been reading more about Service Pack 2. It sounds like the built in firewall from Microsoft will be pretty darn good. I hope so.

[PseudoRandomDragon]

Yeah, if it is by Microsoft, it has to be good. After all, the example they set in security should be followed by every company.

:rolleyes:

[Flyer72]

Depending on your preference and functions - the "lightest" firewall could very well just be Microsoft's own... then again MS and security is a major contradiction in terms.

I'm in a tight spot. I'm trying to keep my old Athlon 700 MHz, 256 MB (max mem, damaged memory banks prevent more... :angry: ) AND I'm running Win XP Home and Pro on the same computer... (too old to trust MS, and a neat way to separate pleasure and biz). I will add a new machine soon, and turn this machine into a linux box but I need to keep this one alive until then. In a way it is a lost cause! Anything remotely heavy is killing this machine! I have tried a lot of different antivirus programs and firewalls, I rarely have the same installed and due to two OS's I'm pretty happy testing out stuff. McAffee and Symantec is a waste of resources - and it slows down everything substantially. Oupost takes around 11-13 MB by me and is also a resource hog - MS is something I don't trust, and now I'm of testing out Kerio PF.... Any other suggestions?

[insurektion]

Yeah, if it is by Microsoft, it has to be good. After all, the example they set in security should be followed by every company.

:rolleyes:

you are an anti-microsoft idiot. have you tried the sp2 beta builds? do you know how much they have improved it? it does the job very nicely. you ignorance astounds me. also try having a real base to argue instead of pay me $20 and i would tell you all, if i knew anything.

[Flyer72]

you are an anti-microsoft idiot. have you tried the sp2 beta builds? do you know how much they have improved it? it does the job very nicely. you ignorance astounds me. also try having a real base to argue instead of pay me $20 and i would tell you all, if i knew anything.

You don't have to love MS to use their products... The sp2 beta builds might be good, but then there is the "beta" word in it, and then it is MS... Microsoft is the first place most attacks are aimed at, and if there is a way in with their firewall it is going to be exploited. If you run other firewall software who might even be a lot worse than MS, you just might get lucky...

It is like Apple computers. Their security level isn't very good, but apparently the interest to hack it isn't all that great.

[Bearded Kirklander]

you are an anti-microsoft idiot. have you tried the sp2 beta builds? do you know how much they have improved it? it does the job very nicely. you ignorance astounds me. also try having a real base to argue instead of pay me $20 and i would tell you all, if i knew anything.

Way too Harsh! Geesh! Can't you be nice or something?

[jago_lfn]

Good idea. But I can do that with any firewall software :D

Do you know about a good open source (freeware) firewall? (for Windows XP) I know there are very good free software available, some times better than commercial ones :yes:

I think i saw a couple on sourceforge but i don't remember the names nor did i look into them. And it's true you can do what smoothwall does with other software but it's nice to have it isolated on a single box that only does NAT that way if something bad were to happen it would be easily fixed. :)

[PseudoRandomDragon]

you are an anti-microsoft idiot. have you tried the sp2 beta builds? do you know how much they have improved it? it does the job very nicely. you ignorance astounds me. also try having a real base to argue instead of pay me $20 and i would tell you all, if i knew anything.

I know English as well. If you pay me $20/hour I can teach you how to make complete sentences. Heck, I will even help you master placing capital letters in the right place.

[X Statik Process]

I know English as well. If you pay me $20/hour I can teach you how to make complete sentences. Heck, I will even help you master placing capital letters in the right place.

woah......

even *i* couldn't master the *gulp!* art of placing capital letteRs in the aPproPriatE sPOt.....

[PseudoRandomDragon]

The sp2 beta builds might be good, but then there is the "beta" word in it

Exactly the point I was making. People are saying that the WinXPSP2 firewall is the best and it hasn't even come out yet! :wacko:

[Patrick_]

The Windows ICF is just fine, and I've found it to take up a lot less RAM. I've tried Norton Firewall, Zone Alarm, and Sygate, but they took up too much RAM for me.

[Jason]

XP SP2 firewall.

[Hum]

I know English as well. If you pay me $20/hour I can teach you how to make complete sentences. Heck, I will even help you master placing capital letters in the right place.

:huh: Aww, complete sentences take too long. Fragments rock. :woot:

[Rahul]

i use the default firewall provided by windows

[NeHoMaR]

I am the "creator" of this topic. I am still using ZoneAlarmPro :/ Recently I installed new additional RAM :D :punk: :D

[PseudoRandomDragon]

^rofl

[xodlike]

Is there any firewall that uses ONLY ONE PROCESS?

I know McAfee uses like 9.

I know avast uses about 3.

...I think norton uses about 15.

Is there a firewall that uses one process?

[PseudoRandomDragon]

ZoneAlarm uses 2. I don't think that there is a firewall that uses just one.

[JorgeIvan]

I need to download the XP SP2 to get the firewall or there is a option to

download only the firewall??