BIG firewall issues

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Greetings, All. I'm reposting due to horrible spelling errors in the topic on
my original post, so nobody yell at me. :-)
I am currently running the apparently defunct Sygate Personal Firewall, and
am looking to replace it, due to the defunctness. Zone Alarm and Kerio seem
to be the front runners from what I read here, but there are already
problems. I have tried Kerio (the Sunbelt version) and it COMPLETELY locks me
off of the internet. BAM, bye-bye web, no matter what changes I make in the
settings. Now a little additional info, relevant or not, I don't know. The PC
in question is our primary machine, connected via DSL. I just today got our
son's PC online, piggybacking on our connection, and installed Kerio. HIS
machine runs fine. So does mine--as soon as I uninstall KPF. I can't just
disable it, it takes a complete uninstall. I also prefer to use Firefox (like
now) and have read a few comments about compatibility issues. SO--any help,
and suggestions for other firewalls (preferably no-cost) will be greatly
appreciated.
 
Whats wrong with using Zone Alarm? I use it and have NEVER had any issues
with it. And yes, It IS free. At least the lite versioin is free. It stops
anything I don't want it to and works great for program based access blocking
- good if you are using a "copy" of a program that you don't want to access
the manufacturer for whatever reason.

Steve
 
Greetings, All. I'm reposting due to horrible spelling errors in the topic on
my original post, so nobody yell at me. :-)
I am currently running the apparently defunct Sygate Personal Firewall, and
am looking to replace it, due to the defunctness. Zone Alarm and Kerio seem
to be the front runners from what I read here, but there are already
problems. I have tried Kerio (the Sunbelt version) and it COMPLETELY locks me
off of the internet. BAM, bye-bye web, no matter what changes I make in the
settings. Now a little additional info, relevant or not, I don't know. The PC
in question is our primary machine, connected via DSL. I just today got our
son's PC online, piggybacking on our connection, and installed Kerio. HIS
machine runs fine. So does mine--as soon as I uninstall KPF. I can't just
disable it, it takes a complete uninstall. I also prefer to use Firefox (like
now) and have read a few comments about compatibility issues. SO--any help,
and suggestions for other firewalls (preferably no-cost) will be greatly
appreciated.
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Get a NAT Router and you won't need one of those PFW solutions that
can't really protect you from yourself.

If you get a cheap NAT Router that also provides logs, you can monitor
all inbound and outbound connections in real time and see what your
computer is really doing on the net.
 
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