Seriously, I may look at other firewalls, but I have been using Sygate
for years, eve since ZA started giving me fits. Sygate mya use 10 megs
of RAM, but it has not failed me yet.
I've tried a couple and so far, I'm not impressed. Outpost Free has a bug
in it. I tried the evaluation version of Look'N'Stop, and can't believe
that you have to accept it's built in ruleset. One of those is "allow
most ordinary email, browser programs, etc." I don't like having that
control taken away from me. I unticked this rule and then found that it
would not allow programs I specifically told it to allow. You also cannot
alter or add new rules to the built in ruleset (at least, I couldn't find
a way to do it.)
I notice that all the attacks that Sygate allows involves a Trojan
hijacking something. Maybe depending on a firewall to do that is
unrealistic. I'm thinking more and more that if the firewall does what
it's supposed to do, the hijacking is best dealt with other ways. First,
by not allowing the Trojan in to begin with. Second, using some kind of
program to detect the hijacking. I've never worried about Trojans - I've
never had one, and that is mainly because I practice safe surfing habits,
and don't use IE.
