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Chrissy Cruiser
That's right kids, yet another acquisition! Here's the poop:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1848935,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1848935,00.asp
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El Gee
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Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He had trouble sleeping at night, wondering if there was a dog.
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Richard Steinfeld
Chrissy said:
I was going to post about this, but Chrissy beat me to it.
So, it looks like those of us using Sygate Personal Firewall may have to
find another solution. Here's why it may not be armegeddon:
I've appreciated the performance of Sygate. I first used a compromised
version of it (no custom rules) bundled with System Suite 4. I
discovered, to my amazement, that the free version was actually more
powerful than my bundled version.
I like the way Sygate applies rules. Rules are linked to appliciations,
which is especially good at controlling problems with your computer
calling outward to ports unknown, as in, "Holy S..., what the hell...?"
Like, it's great to be able to nail that sucker when you've got Real
Player going to URL #1 and suddenly, it's calling home to URL #2.
But there's a catch. In the Personal Firewall, there's a limit of 20
rules. And just last week, I found myself hitting my limit. Sooner or
later, it would happen.
And there's a second issue: Sygate runs a lot of processes in the
background. On my 720 mhz Windows ME box, that was tolerable. But adding
the multiple repeated processes of Avast Antivirus to that made those
"background" processes more "foreground." In fact, I can hear hiccups
now in my system's audio. And there are other degredations.
So, I was thinking about getting something else. And then, I saw the
story in the news. When the biggest corporate bigshots (or most
recently, the FCC) claim that their planned merger with their competitor
is "good for competition," I'm like, "OK: let's see, 'black is white;
Why Yes! Of course, why black _is_ indeed white. Why haven't I
understood this before?'"
Anyway, black is now white among firewalls.
What other choices do we have?
I'd tried Kerio, and there was some reason that I didn't like it.
Something to to with the rules or host list (can't recall). The problem
with such a list is that it can get endless. You download someone else's
host list, and then you can't load a certain web page, and you can't
figure out which among the hundreds and hundreds of entries caused this.
I'm interested in running a firewall that's lighter on it's feet, can be
configurable by the user; unlimited rules would be nice. And I'm also
interested in a potent antivirus that's also easier on the resources.
And, of course, the two routines being able to coexist.
Anyone got a good solution?
Richard
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Chrissy Cruiser
Excuse me, I never touched you nicky hard thingy.
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Chrissy Cruiser
yes good god i did not mean to inflict pain
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El Gee
Well, you did!
Sygate is a great firewall and Symantec writesbloatware. Time to investigate other firewalls. I think Kerio has a
good one...
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El Gee - www (dot) mistergeek (dot) com <><
Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He had trouble sleeping at night, wondering if there was a dog.
Remove yourhat to reply ... but it may take a while.
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