Kerio Personal Firewall & Sygate will shortly no longer support oroffer download.

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Nice post, I use zonealarm

Anyone here uses 8signs. One of the recommended ones after that blog of
kerio and sygate on washington post page

Haven't heard of it before.

Also does anyone know of any pages on the net that shows comparissons
of freeware firewalls?

Cheers tf76
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tf76 said:
Nice post, I use zonealarm

Anyone here uses 8signs. One of the recommended ones after that blog of
kerio and sygate on washington post page

Haven't heard of it before.

Also does anyone know of any pages on the net that shows comparissons
of freeware firewalls?

Cheers tf76
http://www.topfreeware.net
Best Freeware Downloads and tips to optimize your system
Member of The Freeware Revolution
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tf,

This is rather old, but is the _only_ PFW comparative that I know of:

(http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests.htm)

Everthing else that I have seen is either a poll or a review by a Web
Site that accepts advertising, both of which, IMO, are pretty much
worthless.

Here are a few links relating to PFWs:

(http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html)
(http://cyberpunks.org/display/356/article/)
(http://www.firewallguide.com/bestreviews.htm)
(http://www.firewallguide.com/)

(http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/2005/oct27.php#winfirewall)

Again, some are old but still informative.

Ron :)
 
tf76 said:
Nice post, I use zonealarm

Anyone here uses 8signs. One of the recommended ones after that blog of
kerio and sygate on washington post page

Haven't heard of it before.

Also does anyone know of any pages on the net that shows comparissons
of freeware firewalls?

Cheers tf76
http://www.topfreeware.net
Best Freeware Downloads and tips to optimize your system
Member of The Freeware Revolution
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Fred Langa did a piece recently:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173402915

hth,
Warren
 
miskairal said:
Great link.
NetVeda-Safety.Net (free for personal use) is on page 4 of above link
and mentions parental filters and control of internet time. Someone
recently asked here for something like this.

Anyone here use this?
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Never mind I'm downloading it anyway as it works on win95 (which some of
my friends have) and I have found lot's of great reviews and no bad
ones. It's also said to be kind on system resources.

Cheers.
 
lunedì 28 novembre 2005 miskairal ha scritto:
Never mind I'm downloading it anyway as it works on win95 (which some of
my friends have) and I have found lot's of great reviews and no bad
ones. It's also said to be kind on system resources.
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I had downloaded it but not installed yet. Before uninstalling Kerio I wish
someone could report here how it works :-)
 
Great link.
NetVeda-Safety.Net (free for personal use) is on page 4 of above link
and mentions parental filters and control of internet time. Someone
recently asked here for something like this.

Anyone here use this?
Click to expand...

I tried Safety.Net but do not feel I can recommend it for the
following reasons.
1. Safety.Net has not had any updates for some considerable time.
2. Slow Response times. I installed Spyware Blaster. I then told SB to
go online and download any updates. Sixty seconds later. well after SB
had finished its download, Safety.net popped up a window stating that
it had blocked access for the program.
3. I have a firewall in my ADSL modem which prevents any unrequested
access from outside so I cannot check just how effective the
Safety.Net firewall is in that situation however Safety.Net repeatedly
failed GRC's LeakTest until it finally caught on that LeakTest was
actually trying to access the outside world and plonked a block on it.
Once the block was actually in place it did deny LeakTest access.
4. The program seems to ignore any changes made to its rules unless
you perform both an "apply" and a "refresh". Often the changes will
not last through a reboot.
5. I advised Net-Veda of some of my concerns via their contact e-mail
address. I have not yet been afforded the courtesy of _any_ reply.
--
David
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David said:
I tried Safety.Net but do not feel I can recommend it for the
following reasons.
1. Safety.Net has not had any updates for some considerable time.
2. Slow Response times. I installed Spyware Blaster. I then told SB to
go online and download any updates. Sixty seconds later. well after SB
had finished its download, Safety.net popped up a window stating that
it had blocked access for the program.
3. I have a firewall in my ADSL modem which prevents any unrequested
access from outside so I cannot check just how effective the
Safety.Net firewall is in that situation however Safety.Net repeatedly
failed GRC's LeakTest until it finally caught on that LeakTest was
actually trying to access the outside world and plonked a block on it.
Once the block was actually in place it did deny LeakTest access.
4. The program seems to ignore any changes made to its rules unless
you perform both an "apply" and a "refresh". Often the changes will
not last through a reboot.
5. I advised Net-Veda of some of my concerns via their contact e-mail
address. I have not yet been afforded the courtesy of _any_ reply.
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Great info David. Thanks for posting your test drive results. I think
I can mark this off my prospect list for the present.

I'm seriously considering building a Smoothwall box as I've enough old
machines and nics laying about to put one together. Not that this would
remove the need for a FW on each box on my LAN for outbound
notification... Still.
 
David said:
I tried Safety.Net but do not feel I can recommend it for the
following reasons.
1. Safety.Net has not had any updates for some considerable time.
2. Slow Response times. I installed Spyware Blaster. I then told SB to
go online and download any updates. Sixty seconds later. well after SB
had finished its download, Safety.net popped up a window stating that
it had blocked access for the program.
3. I have a firewall in my ADSL modem which prevents any unrequested
access from outside so I cannot check just how effective the
Safety.Net firewall is in that situation however Safety.Net repeatedly
failed GRC's LeakTest until it finally caught on that LeakTest was
actually trying to access the outside world and plonked a block on it.
Once the block was actually in place it did deny LeakTest access.
4. The program seems to ignore any changes made to its rules unless
you perform both an "apply" and a "refresh". Often the changes will
not last through a reboot.
5. I advised Net-Veda of some of my concerns via their contact e-mail
address. I have not yet been afforded the courtesy of _any_ reply.
Click to expand...

Shame. It was looking so good.
 
Great info David. Thanks for posting your test drive results. I think
I can mark this off my prospect list for the present.

I'm seriously considering building a Smoothwall box as I've enough old
machines and nics laying about to put one together. Not that this would
remove the need for a FW on each box on my LAN for outbound
notification... Still.
Click to expand...

I am in a similar situation, just haven't worked up the energy to do
it yet.

I'm currently testing the Jetico PFW. It seems to be doing the job
although it is a little more obscure in some of its terminology than
ZoneAlarm. I have not tried it with Internet Connection Sharing as
yet. Response time is fast and little lag is experienced. LeakTest was
detected and prevented from communicating.

http://www.jetico.com

I will provide more information as it comes to hand.
--
David
Remove "farook" to reply
At the bottom of the application where it says
"sign here". I put "Sagittarius"
E-mail: justdas at iinet dot net dot au
 
I am in a similar situation, just haven't worked up the energy to do
it yet.

I'm currently testing the Jetico PFW. It seems to be doing the job
although it is a little more obscure in some of its terminology than
ZoneAlarm. I have not tried it with Internet Connection Sharing as
yet. Response time is fast and little lag is experienced. LeakTest was
detected and prevented from communicating.

http://www.jetico.com

I will provide more information as it comes to hand.
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Jetico is very good, one of the few that will pass most or all of the
leak tests, if that's of concern to you. About the only negative things
are that some people find it rather excessive with the popups and
therefore somewhat annoying, and it also doesn't run as a service, which
means it starts up later and you're not covered totally from the instant
you boot up. No big deal IMO. Aside from that, it's a great firewall,
especially if you like rules and don't mind some tweaking..
 
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