Best firewall for 56k?

[Droopers]

My cousin uninstalled the ZoneAlarm firewall that I put in for him months
ago claiming it was slowing down his gayOL connection. He now gets
constantly bombarded with popups and spyware. I have since moved onto
Sygate, but was wondering if anyone knew what the which firewall (ZA,
Sygate, Kerio, etc) would be best for a 56K? Thanks.

 

[jo]

My cousin uninstalled the ZoneAlarm firewall that I put in for him months
ago claiming it was slowing down his gayOL connection. He now gets
constantly bombarded with popups and spyware. I have since moved onto
Sygate, but was wondering if anyone knew what the which firewall (ZA,
Sygate, Kerio, etc) would be best for a 56K? Thanks.

I don't think it matters whether one is on dial up or any other sort of
connection.

I would suggest Sygate over Kerio as a personal preference.

Then you need a pop up stopper.

Only your cousin can stop himself from installing spyware; you can point
him to adaware and spybot s+d to help him out after the event.

A browser that is not IE would be a good thing also.

 

[Papcina]

I don't think it matters whether one is on dial up or any other sort of
connection.

I would suggest Sygate over Kerio as a personal preference.

Then you need a pop up stopper.

Only your cousin can stop himself from installing spyware; you can point
him to adaware and spybot s+d to help him out after the event.

A browser that is not IE would be a good thing also.

I am using ZA and I think that is slowing a lot the connection...
When I go on net I don't use so much ZA because it drops me crazy...
)

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

hich firewall (ZA,
Sygate, Kerio, etc) would be best for a 56K? Thanks.

I'd say an older version of Tiny Personal Firewall,
version 2. Found it here <http://www.webmasterfree.com/tpfw.html>.
Then for pop-up and ad-blockers, use dedicated software for that.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[jo]

I am using ZA and I think that is slowing a lot the connection...
When I go on net I don't use so much ZA because it drops me crazy...
)

Quite. ZA is horrible. Sygate and Kerio are much, much better in all
ways.

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Then for pop-up and ad-blockers, use dedicated software for that.

Or use a browser with some popup blocking features, like Mozilla or
Opera. Then also have him install the free version of Winpatrol
<www.winpatrol.com>, to prevent anything being added to windows
startup/services without his OK, ditto for BHOs, and more.
Install decent AV-client, like www.free-av.com, immunize with
Spywareblaster <http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html>,
ditto with Spybot search & destroy
<http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html>. Latter also for use
as scanner, for finding and removing spyware/tracking-cookies etc.
Do regular scans with the Ewido Suite <http://www.ewido.net/en/>
and A2-scanner <http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/>
Browse <http://www.wilderssecurity.com/> for more....

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[jo]

Nonsense, I used newest Kerio for past six months and it drived me crazy
all the time. Now I'm back to ZA and I can tell you, what a relief !

No-one likes the newest Kerio...

 

[BOOGIEMAN]

Quite. ZA is horrible. Sygate and Kerio are much, much better in all
ways.

Nonsense, I used newest Kerio for past six months and it drived me crazy
all the time. Now I'm back to ZA and I can tell you, what a relief !

 

[michael andrews]

Nonsense, I used newest Kerio for past six months and it drived me crazy
all the time. Now I'm back to ZA and I can tell you, what a relief !

Lost original msg This is for OP

what about agnitum's outpost?

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/compare.html