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Definitive Best Firewall

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Definitive Best Firewall  

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  1. 1. Your choice?

    • Hardware Firewall/NAT router
      131
    • Jetico
      2
    • Kerio
      43
    • McAfee
      9
    • Norton
      11
    • Outpost
      52
    • Sygate
      53
    • Windows Firewall
      52
    • ZoneAlarm
      116
    • N/A
      58

  2. 2. Your choice?

    • Ommiquad
      2
    • Netveda Safety.NET
      1
    • BlackIce
      18
    • Linux based firewall distro
      32
    • Microsoft ISA
      24
    • Tiny
      9
    • BitDefender
      20
    • Lavasoft
      33
    • Other (please specify below)
      35
    • N/A
      353

  3. 3. Your choice?

    • Look 'n' Stop
      71
    • N/A
      452

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Grand Master

Smigit

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I use Kerio 2.1.5, if Sygate were still offering theirs, I would use that.

Well technically Kerio 2.x.x isnt being offered anymore is it? It'll get the job done but with 4.x.x its become payware so if you did like sygate I guess you would get as much support as Kerio 2.x.x.

I guess the good thing with firewalls is they dont age all that fast due to their nature. You can use them years after their development stopped and it'll do the job still.

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Scorbing

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I use MS Windows 2003 Enterprise with McAfee Enterprise 8.0i and the Windows Firewall. My ISP has firewall protection as well and since I only use Opera to surf the web I really don't worry too much about Trojans and strange things since Opera does not use Active X.

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Bobstar

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Have used ZA for years however, was getting fed up with slow boot using latest free version 6.5. Went back to 5.5 free and now boot time is considerably reduced.

Another thing that annoys me about Zone Alarm is the the fact that the uninstaller does a lousy job and to prevent problems after installing a different version of ZA, you have to manually delete files and registry entries as per instructions on their web site.

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Melly

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I'm using Kerio 4 but after reading the posts should I downgrade to version 2.x?

Are there significant improvements in ver 4? I have a rather low-end PC and could use any help in freeing up resources I can get! I do want to be as secure as possible though, so I will use whichever has the best security.

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see-seA

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ZA messed up many of my Windows computers. I get into the mode "a version a while back didnt work and everyone says its good so let me try it again" and then something got messed.

Then I moved onto Mcafee for quite some time and was very happy as it did everything I wanted. But for some reason I wanted to try other things. I went through some others which I cannot remember but since last year I have been using Agnitum Outpost and it has to be the best firewall I've ever used - and it gets better with each version.

On XP64 I used plain old built-in windows firewall.

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fdsfdg

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hardware firewall.

Why're some of you using windows firewall with the hardware firewall? I have mine shut off, it tends to annoy me and I don't see any purpose in using it. If there is a reason other than "why not?" I'd like to know so I don't carry on with my ignorant view of adequate firewall protection. :blush:

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