Firewall and DSL

[Guest]

I had norton 2003 personal firewall installed on my (XP Home) computer with dial up and it worked perfectly. 2 days ago I upgraded to DSL. Since then the firewall has been a big pain in the backside. Thinking perhaps it needed to see the new DSL modem I uninstalled it (Norton Firewall) and reinstalled it 4 times and still it was a joke. Always asking for permission for some function. I finally said the hell with it, permit everything and it still kept asking for permission. I loved it with dial up but it flat sucks with DSL. I even unistalled my Norton 2003 pro antivirus each time I did the firewall. So does anybody know of an excellent firewall that will work perfectly with DSL?

 

[peter]

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/comparison.jsp?lid=ho_za
peter

I had norton 2003 personal firewall installed on my (XP Home) computer

with dial up and it worked perfectly. 2 days ago I upgraded to DSL. Since then
the firewall has been a big pain in the backside. Thinking perhaps it needed to
see the new DSL modem I uninstalled it (Norton Firewall) and reinstalled it 4
times and still it was a joke. Always asking for permission for some function. I
finally said the hell with it, permit everything and it still kept asking for
permission. I loved it with dial up but it flat sucks with DSL. I even
unistalled my Norton 2003 pro antivirus each time I did the firewall. So does
anybody know of an excellent firewall that will work perfectly with DSL?

 

[SteveL]

I have used several firewalls, Norton in not bad, the
reason it is asking is because you did not do a app scan,
this ussually runs once norton checks all apps that can
gain access to the net and you tell it yes/no at that
point and it ussusally does not ask again, did you setuo
the internet zone when you changed over to dsl?

read the manual you can learn alot...

-----Original Message-----
I had norton 2003 personal firewall installed on my

(XP Home) computer with dial up and it worked perfectly. 2
days ago I upgraded to DSL. Since then the firewall has
been a big pain in the backside. Thinking perhaps it
needed to see the new DSL modem I uninstalled it (Norton
Firewall) and reinstalled it 4 times and still it was a
joke. Always asking for permission for some function. I
finally said the hell with it, permit everything and it
still kept asking for permission. I loved it with dial up
but it flat sucks with DSL. I even unistalled my Norton
2003 pro antivirus each time I did the firewall. So does
anybody know of an excellent firewall that will work
perfectly with DSL?

 

[Guest]

Read the manual cover to cover and did the app scan every time I reinstalled. It worked perfectly with dial up. didnt screw up until I got DSL.
Thanks

 

[Hilary Karp]

There are several good options, though I don't know specifically
reference compatibility with DSL. They all offer free and pay versions.

Sygate Personal Firewall
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

Zone Alarm
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?lid=staticcomp_za

Kerio Personal Firewall
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html

 

[SteveL]

OK, beware of Zone alarm, it crashes XP, try sygate. Try
Norton one more time, download tune-up utilities 2004 it
is free for 30 days, install it, un-install norton, then
run the registry cleaner of the util, then re-install
Norton and try 1 more time.

Good luck

-----Original Message-----
Read the manual cover to cover and did the app scan every

time I reinstalled. It worked perfectly with dial up.
didnt screw up until I got DSL.

 

[Guest]

I have dsl and had similar problems with a trial version of norton's firewall.
I have had no problems with the free version of zone alarm. It has not crashed my system at all.
You will go through an initial set up where it asks you for each program but after that you will be fine.

 

[jch]

What is your setup? Do you have only one computer or do you have a router
and a small network? If you just have one computer and no router (ie
computer connected directly to a modem) then you might consider using the XP
firewall (ICF). But it's only intended for single computers connected
directly to the internet (no router or network configurations). I've never
used it but it's there.

If you have a router then I will assume it performs NAT (network address
translation). This is what I have. I don't use a software firewall and my
system is up 24/7. Never had a problem. In conjunction with that I run a
good AV program as you probably already do anyway.

I had norton 2003 personal firewall installed on my (XP Home)

computer with dial up and it worked perfectly. 2 days ago I upgraded to DSL.
Since then the firewall has been a big pain in the backside. Thinking
perhaps it needed to see the new DSL modem I uninstalled it (Norton
Firewall) and reinstalled it 4 times and still it was a joke. Always asking
for permission for some function. I finally said the hell with it, permit
everything and it still kept asking for permission. I loved it with dial up
but it flat sucks with DSL. I even unistalled my Norton 2003 pro antivirus
each time I did the firewall. So does anybody know of an excellent firewall
that will work perfectly with DSL?

 

[Brian]

I use Norton Personal Firewall myself at home, with DSL.
What you need to do are two things: In the Configuration, look for a
Networking tab. Run the Networking Wizard so that it can recognize your DSL
modem and any network devices that you have (router, other pcs, etc).
Second, also in the Network tab, Add the loopback address: 127.0.0.1 This
alone may solve a lot of problems for you.
Design Flaw here in Norton: It doesn't recognize the loopback adapter by
default. You have to add it in manually.
It's a pain to figure out, and it took me a while before someone else helped
me with the same problem.

--Brian Beckers
--IT Manager
--Giddings & Associates

I had norton 2003 personal firewall installed on my (XP Home)

computer with dial up and it worked perfectly. 2 days ago I upgraded to DSL.
Since then the firewall has been a big pain in the backside. Thinking
perhaps it needed to see the new DSL modem I uninstalled it (Norton
Firewall) and reinstalled it 4 times and still it was a joke. Always asking
for permission for some function. I finally said the hell with it, permit
everything and it still kept asking for permission. I loved it with dial up
but it flat sucks with DSL. I even unistalled my Norton 2003 pro antivirus
each time I did the firewall. So does anybody know of an excellent firewall
that will work perfectly with DSL?