Free software firewalls I have never heard of before

[Franklin]

I was looking for an alternative freeware firewall (I don't like
ZA, Sygate is nice but I get problems with it, Kerio 2.1.5 is too
technical for me, and Outpost is too hard to work out)

I thought I had tried all the free firewalls but then I came
across this web page:
<http://www.klitetools.com/index.php?action=news&catid=47>

I have never heard of products like these:

R-Firewall 1.0 Build 53
Look n Stop Lite 1.04
Securepoint Personal Firewall 3.7.1
WyvernWorks Firewall 5.2
Filseclab Personal Firewall 2.5
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall 1.4.1
Jetico Personal Firewall 1.0.1.61

Are they fully functioning full-strength firewalls? Many look as
if they are only just out of beta if the version number is
anything to go by.

But others seems to have a mature version number and I have never
heard of them.

What do people know about these?

Frank

 

[Hermann Berben]

I've tried most freeware firewalls and I get very good results with NetVeda
Safety.Net

Had problems with sp2 and securepoint
wasn't satisfied with r-firewall and jetico
had good results with wyvern

hope it helps

 

[El Gee]

I've tried most freeware firewalls and I get very good results with
NetVeda Safety.Net

Had problems with sp2 and securepoint
wasn't satisfied with r-firewall and jetico
had good results with wyvern

<SNIP>

1) Jetico was not good (but I cannot remember why though) I stuck with
Sygate 2) Did not like Wyvern Works either. So far FOR ME, Sygate has
been the best.

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[Mel]

[sorry guys if it offends but x-posting seems appropriate this
time]

That's probably 'cause you just don't get it!

 

[Brook Humphrey]

1) Jetico was not good (but I cannot remember why though) I stuck with
Sygate 2) Did not like Wyvern Works either. So far FOR ME, Sygate has
been the best.

maybe but it has been bought out by norton. So no matter how good it was in
the past(It was my preference also) it may not remain a viable solution.

I have been looking at jetico for quite some time and done allot or reading
on it over at wildersecurity. It seems to be an excellent firewall but it
is also more advanced so you will need to actually think to use it. If you
want something easy and brain dead simple but not as featurefull you should
look elsewere. I have not used it personally though.

 

[nemo_outis]

I was looking for an alternative freeware firewall (I don't like
ZA, Sygate is nice but I get problems with it, Kerio 2.1.5 is too
technical for me, and Outpost is too hard to work out)

I thought I had tried all the free firewalls but then I came
across this web page:
<http://www.klitetools.com/index.php?action=news&catid=47>

I have never heard of products like these:

R-Firewall 1.0 Build 53
Look n Stop Lite 1.04
Securepoint Personal Firewall 3.7.1
WyvernWorks Firewall 5.2
Filseclab Personal Firewall 2.5
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall 1.4.1
Jetico Personal Firewall 1.0.1.61

Are they fully functioning full-strength firewalls? Many look as
if they are only just out of beta if the version number is
anything to go by.

But others seems to have a mature version number and I have never
heard of them.

What do people know about these?

Frank

I don't know about the others but Look n Stop (the full version)
regularly takes turns with Outpost as the number 1 firewall in
independent reviews. (Look n Stop isn't very well known, though.)

See, for instance:

www.firewallleaktester.com (that's 3 L's in a row!)

Regards,

 

[Jim Scott]

I don't know about the others but Look n Stop (the full version)
regularly takes turns with Outpost as the number 1 firewall in
independent reviews. (Look n Stop isn't very well known, though.)

See, for instance:

www.firewallleaktester.com (that's 3 L's in a row!)

Look n Stop is not freeware.

 

[Volker Birk]

I don't know about the others but Look n Stop (the full version)
regularly takes turns with Outpost as the number 1 firewall in
independent reviews. (Look n Stop isn't very well known, though.)

Outpost is vulnerable to the SelfDoS attack.

It opens Popups with texts, which most users don't understand and
misinterpret.

Outpost cannot prevent spyware from sending your personal information
across the Internet; it failed in our tests together with the rest of the
"Personal Firewalls".

Outpost does not make a PC "invisible" or "stealth" in the Internet, as
this is not possible at all.

Outpost "Personal Firewall" installs SYSTEM-Services, which open
windows.

This is a gross error, because this breaches security. Agnitum show here,
that they never read Microsoft's design guidlines for system services:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=ht...urity_considerations_for_interactive_services

For a software, which should enhance security, this design flaw means the
declaration of bankruptcy.

Yours,
VB.

 

[nemo_outis]

Look n Stop is not freeware.

You're undoubtedly correct - I tend to gloss over such distinctions; the
concept of paying for software does not loom large in my mind

Regards,

 

[Mel]

the concept of paying for software does not loom large in my mind

Maybe in the future you would consider not cross-posting to a group
where such a concept is off-topic.

 

[El Gee]

maybe but it has been bought out by norton. So no matter how good it
was in the past(It was my preference also) it may not remain a viable
solution.

I have been looking at jetico for quite some time and done allot or
reading on it over at wildersecurity. It seems to be an excellent
firewall but it is also more advanced so you will need to actually
think to use it. If you want something easy and brain dead simple but
not as featurefull you should look elsewere. I have not used it
personally though.

Points taken, but I am not an idiot, and I do not need "brain dead
simple", I need good, strong, secure software. If I wanted simple, I
would stick with windows xp firewall.

I have had Kerio installed on my Sandbox and need to investigate other
firewalls as well. I just have not had the time.

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[Yourhighness]

From: "Brett Michaels From Poison"

Go with kerio..lot's of options and very tech intuitive.

"Kerio Personal Firewall will be discontinued as of December 31, 2005.
It will not be available for purchase after this date. Subscriptions
will not be renewed. Technical support will be provided to all
customers with valid subscriptions until the end of 2006."

Quote taken from Kerio Forum:
http://forums.kerio.com/index.php?t=msg&th=7040&start=0&S=87a76357fa565eb8998b4e93472fa6fb

Rgds,

Yourhighness

 

[Fred]

If it's not for sale and discontinued then it's no crime to use a crack
with it.

 

[David]

If it's not for sale and discontinued then it's no crime to use a crack
with it.

It is still a copyright work and it would be illegal to do as you
suggest.

 

[Global Warming]

"Kerio Personal Firewall will be discontinued as of December 31, 2005.
It will not be available for purchase after this date. Subscriptions
will not be renewed. Technical support will be provided to all
customers with valid subscriptions until the end of 2006."

Quote taken from Kerio Forum:
http://forums.kerio.com/index.php?t=msg&th=7040&start=0&S=87a76357fa565
eb8998b4e93472fa6fb

Rgds,

Yourhighness

I am starting to really this one,..

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/netvadanet.html

NetVeda Safety.Net is an application firewall that offers inbound and
outbound protection, as well as filtering, parental controls and email
safety to protect you from hackers, worms, Trojans and intruders. It uses
multi layer deep packet stateful inspection and enables you to configure
which applications and components are trusted to access the network or
Internet. In addition, some advanced firewall settings enable you to
customize rules for enhanced security. The firewall features are basic,
but application control and content filtering are easy to use and offer
good features that let you restrict access to web sites, remove content
from emails and browser requests, disarm email attachments and more. In
addition, NetVeda Safety.Net offers detailed reports about application
and network activity and allows you to apply rules to network computer
that use your machine as Internet gateway.
...

It seems to be doing the job and very pleasing to my habits.

I am running it with Goldtach-FW on a w2k56kdialup..and chugging along
rather swiftly..


gw

 

[Fred]

Well, since it's free for personal use then I guess it doesn't matter
anyway.

 

[Mike Jones]

I am starting to really this one,..

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/netvadanet.html

NetVeda Safety.Net is an application firewall that offers inbound and
outbound protection, as well as filtering, parental controls and email []
It seems to be doing the job and very pleasing to my habits.

I am running it with Goldtach-FW on a w2k56kdialup..and chugging along
rather swiftly..

not tried it yet, but it's a 6.2M download. Then again Kerio PF is 7M these
days!
No wonder they changed the name from Tiny Personal Firewall (that was <400k)

 

[Franklin]

On Wed 07 Sep 2005 13:09:21, Mel wrote:

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:09:30 +0100, Franklin wrote:

[sorry guys if it offends but x-posting seems appropriate this
time]

That's probably 'cause you just don't get it!

Do you reckon? You disagree with the references below?

Frank.



<http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa.txt>
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GNKSA
The Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval

These are the proposed standards a Usenet news program should
meet to deserve the "Good Net-Keeping Seal":
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3) Provide cross-posting functionality

-- discussion snipped ---
Includes:
"Rationale: Cross-posting is an essential feature of Usenet."

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<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/spam-faq/>
Usenet Spam Thresholds And Guidelines FAQ
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Some people think cross-posting is "bad". In and of
itself, it's good behaviour - it allows you to reach
more groups with less impact on the net. Especially
if you set the Followup-to: header to one group. It
is "bad" when it's done to attack newsgroups or provoke
flamewars (like cross-posting how to cook a cat between
alt.tasteless and rec.pet.cats), but this is beyond the
scope of this FAQ.
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<http://www.killfile.org/faqs/spam.html>
Breidbart Index (BI) of cross-posting

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Also:
<http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_style.html>
<http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/iguide/chap4.crosspost.html>
<http://www.apana.org.au/CrossPost.html>

NB: Misunderstanding & Misuse of 'FollowUp-To' header

NBB: Poorly designed newsreader with no facility for
recognizing and killing across newsgroups second or third
instances of cross-posting

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[Franklin]

On Thu 08 Sep 2005 03:33:51, nemo_outis wrote:

You're undoubtedly correct - I tend to gloss over such
distinctions; the concept of paying for software does not loom
large in my mind

Regards,

I had asked in the first line of my OP for "freeware". Grrr!

 

[Franklin]

On Sun 11 Sep 2005 08:20:41, Fred wrote:

Well, since it's free for personal use then I guess it doesn't
matter anyway.

I thought the cognoscenti used the much older Kerio 2.1.5 which is
freeware.