New firewall for DSL?

[George W]

I'm planning to order DSL from SBC Yahoo. Have had dial-up till now. I'm
running McAfee Security, which includes McAfee's firewall.

SBC Yahoo offers their own firewall for $50 bucks. Is it worth the cost
considering I already have McAfee?

George

 

[Robert]

Check again. I believe SBC Yahoo provides a firewall at no extra charge.

Robert

 

[Bart Bailey]

I'm planning to order DSL from SBC Yahoo. Have had dial-up till now. I'm
running McAfee Security, which includes McAfee's firewall.

SBC Yahoo offers their own firewall for $50 bucks. Is it worth the cost
considering I already have McAfee?

George

I've had SBC DSL since 2001.
When Yahoo got involved it took almost a year to convince them that I
neither wanted to migrate, nor anything to do with Yahoo. I used Zone
Alarm free for quite awhile and now use the re-branded eTrust EZFirewall
with my DSL and it works just fine.

 

[Dannie]

No. I use the free Sygate and XP's. Works great.
Dannie

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Sygate or ZA Free. No need to spend that kind of $$$ for a personal
firewall.

 

[Shane]

Or better yet, Kerio 2.1.5.


Shane

Sygate or ZA Free. No need to spend that kind of $$$ for a personal
firewall.

 

[Steve]

I'm planning to order DSL from SBC Yahoo. Have had dial-up till now.
I'm running McAfee Security, which includes McAfee's firewall.

SBC Yahoo offers their own firewall for $50 bucks. Is it worth the
cost considering I already have McAfee?

George

GW:

If you already have a firewall, then you probably do not need another. I am
unfamilier with the McAfee firewall, but there are already several good FREE
ones available. I have been using ZoneAlarm free for a few years now.

Steve

 

[George W]

Can I use ZoneAlarm together with the McAfee firewall that I already have?
I'm nervous about being connected to the Internet with an "always on"
connection. Or is there no benefit to running two firewalls?

George

 

[the shadow]

Can I use ZoneAlarm together with the McAfee firewall that I already have?
I'm nervous about being connected to the Internet with an "always on"
connection. Or is there no benefit to running two firewalls?

George

If you are that worried about it get a router. And then go to
https://grc.com try out the "Shields Up test". I have both a Mac and a PC on
my router and the IP address comes out the same for both computers. In other
words the internet is just seeing the router.

Although one interesting thing is when I do a port check the printer port
always shows that it is open on both systems. But again this is the routers
printer port not my computers.

Haven't had time to investigate that yet. I have DSL with MCI, for what it
is worth.

Hud

 

[Colon Terminus]

You need a NAT router.

 

[Jeffrey A. Setaro]

I'm planning to order DSL from SBC Yahoo. Have had dial-up till now. I'm
running McAfee Security, which includes McAfee's firewall.

SBC Yahoo offers their own firewall for $50 bucks. Is it worth the cost
considering I already have McAfee?

Personally, I'd suggest using on of the free personal firewall in
combination with a broadband router/firewall appliance (see list
below).

D-Link Express EtherNetwork Router DI-804HV
Linksys EtherFast Router BEFSX41
Netgear ProSafe Router FR114P
SMC Barricade Plus Router SMC7004VBR
ZyXel Prestige 334

Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[Jeffrey A. Setaro]

Can I use ZoneAlarm together with the McAfee firewall that I already have?

Probably not... They'd probably end conflicting with each other and
locking the machine up.

I'm nervous about being connected to the Internet with an "always on"
connection. Or is there no benefit to running two firewalls?

Keep your McAfee firewall and invest in a broadband router/firewall
appliance.

Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[George W]

I just visited grc.com and received a perfect "stealth" score running
McAfee. Guess that's good enough! Thanks for the pointer.

George


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[Bob Alexander]

I just visited grc.com and one of my PCs showed problems with some of
the ports. How can I reset my ports back to normal?

Robert L. Alexander
Sauder Woodworking Co.
Ph. 419.446.3221
Fx. 419.446.4978


-----Original Message-----
From: George W [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:57 AM
Posted To: alt.comp.anti-virus
Conversation: New firewall for DSL?
Subject: Re: New firewall for DSL?

I just visited grc.com and received a perfect "stealth" score running
McAfee. Guess that's good enough! Thanks for the pointer.

George


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[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

I just visited grc.com and one of my PCs showed problems with some of
the ports.  How can I reset my ports back to normal?

Depends what problems were reported, and what you mean by 'normal'.
8>.

'Normal', for most versions of MS Windows is 'pretty much wide open' ..
you need a decent firewall, or a router with NAT, to achieve anything
that grc.com will give you a gold star for.

 

[George W]

I still don't understand the reason for having to get a router if grc.com
gives me a perfect score when I'm just running McAfee firewall. What more
would the router do to protect my PC?

George

 

[kurt wismer]

I still don't understand the reason for having to get a router if grc.com
gives me a perfect score when I'm just running McAfee firewall. What more
would the router do to protect my PC?

generally speaking, a router appliance can't be shutdown by malware the
way a 'personal' firewall or antivirus product can... that's not to say
you should use that *instead* of a personal firewall, i tend to think
they can complement each other...

 

[Casey]

No. I use the free Sygate and XP's. Works great.
Dannie

Yes, agree with Dannie, Try free Sygate v5.5. It is excellent.

Unofficial Help:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/i/k/ikpe/SygateBasics.html

Sygate Forums:
http://forums.sygate.com/vb/

Users Guide and Quick Start Guide:
http://smb.sygate.com/support/documents/pspf/default.htm

Compare SPF Pro and SPF Free (See what's inside each one)
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf/comparison_spf.htm

d/l
http://soho.sygate.com/free/default.php

 

[Shane]

Try Sygate's tests: http://scan.sygate.com/

Shane

 

[Bart Bailey]

Try Sygate's tests: http://scan.sygate.com/

You have to lower your defenses and activate javascript,
so they can tell you that you're vulnerable, no thanks, plenty of other
online scans that do a good job with what you would normally present to
the internet.

http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/prefcan.asp
http://privacy.net/analyze/
http://www.pcflank.com/test.htm
and of course https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2