The Definitive "BEST FIREWALL" thread

[MxxCon]

i'm so sick of these threads poping up every single week. so here's the one and only thread you should need untill the end of your life. moderator can modify poll entries to update.

BEST FIREWALL

[morganpugh84]

after setting up an ISA Server at work I have to say that ISA is probably the most secure (and complex!!) firewall out there. I used to to IPTables however ISA is the better option (however it costs bucks!!).

[MxxCon]

ever worked with checkpoint firewalls?

that isn't a cakewalk to configure either

[mercuryx013]

Check out Smoothwall linux firewall.

[[XS]]

whats smoothwall like, i heard good reports about it

[EnisDonKing_]

I`m using Zone Alarm atm, after I tried most of mentioned firewalls. I think that it is the best fa available atm.

[MxxCon]

,Jun 30 2003, 07:48] whats smoothwall like, i heard good reports about it

:no:

laziness is number cuase of people who die of laziness

you didn't even bother to look yourself :crazy:

http://www.smoothwall.org/about/screenshots/

[Ferret]

None -

I'm sick and tired of the sodding things !!!

Zone Alarm won't let the Auto-Redial feature of XP work

NIS will let it Auto-Redial, but the connection just won't do anything,

BlackICE had that scare a little while ago, spyware or something ? I can't remember now...

But I'll try them others in that list, see if I get any joy with them !

Thanks,

Ferret !

[d1301]

:no:

laziness is number cuase of people who die of laziness

you didn't even bother to look yourself :crazy:

http://www.smoothwall.org/about/screenshots/

i think he was looking for neowin member opinions. :D

[manni]

Kerio Personal Firewall is very good.

[bigfoot]

Kerio's flawless, had no problems accessing computers on the LAN, and no internet sharing troubles either. ZoneAlarm is getting bloated IMO, with the new crappy GUI in version 3, and making it more of a hassle to reach the advanced features. It didn't work comfortably with internet sharing either.

I'm using kerio personal firewall i was able to make the best rules ,but i wasn't able to make other computers connect throw my internet i have a hub 3 com hub which connects to this computer and the internet connects to this computer also (hub connected to the network card) the computers on the network couldn't brows the internet usig IE my Os is Win2k SP4 and my laptop which is connected to the router OS=XP ... u have any idea how to make it possible to brows the net using IE from the laptop "Msn messenger logged =there is internet in the laptop "

[spacey]

block everything except 127.0.0.1 :D

seriously though, buy a router. i'd rather let another box handle that than have something run on my computer.

[Ifoow]

Installed a firewall once, was so incredibly annoying, I removed it the next day. Never used a firewall since and never had any probem whatsoever

[Dross]

Installed a firewall once, was so incredibly annoying, I removed it the next day. Never used a firewall since and never had any probem whatsoever

Yeah but you have no clue who's spying on you and what's going on in your computer. On my rig, ZA reports an access attempt about every 3-10 minutes! Your nuts if you don't have some kind of firewall!

[Jojo81]

I am considering a software firewall for example ZoneAlarm. What firewalls if any do you guys/gals use and how do you like them?

[cyberfrem]

Oh no! Not this thread again!

How many times has someone started a "post your firewall" thread now?!

[cyberfrem]

In a more constructive vein: I use Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5

[Jojo81]

Sorry I don't browse this forum very often. Anyway, I am not only asking what firewall to use but I want to know if you use one at all! I don't enjoy too many things running in the background unless they are a necessity.

[jkinzer]

I use ZoneAlarm Pro with Web Filtering. Very nice. Blocks popups and ads. I have 1,032 IP address ranges blocked, for a total of 69,993,971 blocked IP addresses. With all of that, ZA never uses much more than 3% of the CPU power (on my 1.91GHz) and only consumes 4,776KB of memory--not bad at all. A great firewall, which I'd recommend to anyone.

[futb0l]

zone alarm pro!

[Premgenius]

BlackICE, Kerio keep away from ZoneAlarm

[jkinzer]

BlackICE, Kerio keep away from ZoneAlarm

For what reason?

[taher]

sygate firewall pro 5.5 - http://www.sygatetech.com

[Redestium]

Doh...:pinch:

[Storm]

i use Sygate Pro

i did use zonealarm but it used to crash when i used ICS so i dont know ;)

[RootWind]

Outpost Pro 2 is my choice.