Freeware firewalls

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Riggs

How do the various freeware firewalls compare to the built in firewall in
Windows XP? Is XP sufficient for keeping out the various XP worms that are
currently crawling the internet?



Thanks.



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S

Son Of Spy

Riggs said:
How do the various freeware firewalls compare to the built in firewall in
Windows XP? Is XP sufficient for keeping out the various XP worms that are
currently crawling the internet?



Thanks.
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They're better. The Xp Firewall does not monitor outgoing traffic.
You could be infected by a trojan and never know when it connects
to it's masters.

Son Of Spy

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rach

Riggs said:
How do the various freeware firewalls compare to the built in firewall in
Windows XP? Is XP sufficient for keeping out the various XP worms that are
currently crawling the internet?
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I hear the XP firewall is a joke. I like this firewall:
http://www.kerio.com/dwn/kpf2-en-win.exe but some people have complained
about its behavior with XP. I installed it on my mom's boyfriend's desktop
and laptop both of which have XP and he has had no problems.
 
R

Riggs

They're better. The Xp Firewall does not monitor outgoing traffic.
You could be infected by a trojan and never know when it connects
to it's masters.

Son Of Spy
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I figured, I guess I'll hang onto Kerio to be on the safe side. Thanks.
 
R

Riggs

I hear the XP firewall is a joke. I like this firewall:
http://www.kerio.com/dwn/kpf2-en-win.exe but some people have
complained about its behavior with XP. I installed it on my mom's
boyfriend's desktop and laptop both of which have XP and he has had no
problems.
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I'm running Kerio as well as the XP firewall, I like Kerio as well. It
doesn't seem quite as resource hungry as Zone Alarm. Figured I'd ask
around and see I could get away with one less thing running in the
background.
 
R

rach

Riggs said:
I'm running Kerio as well as the XP firewall, I like Kerio as well. It
doesn't seem quite as resource hungry as Zone Alarm. Figured I'd ask
around and see I could get away with one less thing running in the
background.
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Oh yeah I know about Zone Alarm's problems. I used to use it, but it would
crash a lot. Then way later I gave it another chance a few months ago
(because of the high praise from the folks at grc.security.software at
news.grc.com), and it ate my CPU for breakfast slowing my entire system
down. It was sad. I uninstalled it and reinstalled Kerio, and I've had no
problems.
 
F

Frank Bohan

Riggs said:
I'm running Kerio as well as the XP firewall, I like Kerio as well. It
doesn't seem quite as resource hungry as Zone Alarm. Figured I'd ask
around and see I could get away with one less thing running in the
background.
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I have used Zone Alarm for several years without problems. Present OS is
XPHome -- memory usage is 1948KB which I consider acceptable. How much does
Kerio use?

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¶ The generation of random numbers should not be left to chance.
 
J

JunkMonkey

It works fine with WinME, so I suspect it'll work with Win98. I'm running
Sygate (also free) on my wife's Win98 SE Compaq (the big blue toaster) no
problems so far.
 
S

Sweet Andy Licious

" my mom's boyfriend's desktop "

;) That almost sounds ....uh, well you know.....
 
K

Kerodo

I have used Zone Alarm for several years without problems. Present OS
is XPHome -- memory usage is 1948KB which I consider acceptable. How
much does Kerio use?
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About 5 megs last time I looked...
 
M

MLC

sabato 08/mag/2004 _Tiger_ ha scritto:
How much does Kerio use?
You must be talking about the new version. 2.15 uses 1.6 megs on my
system.
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3.7 megs on my system (XP Home SP1, Kerio 2.15)
 
A

Aaron

The new version used closer to 10 on my system...
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Well with a bit more work they will be up there with ZA on resource use.
That's the aim isn't it, to mimick ZA?






Aaron (my email is not munged!)
 
K

Kerodo

Well with a bit more work they will be up there with ZA on resource use.
That's the aim isn't it, to mimick ZA?
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Certainly looks like it. Actually, it wouldn't be half bad if it
actually had some logging.. I can't understand why they won't let 4.xx
log packets to unopened ports like 2.xx does. Amazing...
 

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