Personal Firewall?

[kalynuik1]

Now that sygate was bought out and they are scrapping it, what other
options are there Freeware/Open-Source wise?

Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2.3.912 (Freeware/Shareware in one)
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
Comodo Personal Firewall (FREE for 365 days)
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
CORE Force
http://force.coresecurity.com/
Zone Alarm Free
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

And I liked Sygate too, darn always the good ones that die young.

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[Art]

Now that sygate was bought out and they are scrapping it, what other
options are there Freeware/Open-Source wise?

Sygate is still availble on Simtel. I see no reason to drop it.

Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2.3.912 (Freeware/Shareware in one)
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
Comodo Personal Firewall (FREE for 365 days)
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
CORE Force
http://force.coresecurity.com/
Zone Alarm Free
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

The "big four" free sw firewalls were always Sygate, ZA, Kerio and
Outpost. Is there no longer a free version of Outpost?

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Ivan V. Klattrup]

Is there no longer a free version of Outpost?

Version 1.0.1817 is at http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostInstall.exe
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_programs.php#0036-PW

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=EDnhardt_Kern?=]

Now that sygate was bought out and they are scrapping it, what other
options are there Freeware/Open-Source wise?

Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2.3.912 (Freeware/Shareware in one)
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
Comodo Personal Firewall (FREE for 365 days)
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
CORE Force
http://force.coresecurity.com/
Zone Alarm Free
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

Why not use the Windows XP SP2 provided firewall?
Its as good or as bad as any firewall.

just my 2 cents,
Reinhardt
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[SJP]

Why not use the Windows XP SP2 provided firewall?
Its as good or as bad as any firewall.

No its not

 

[Susan Bugher]

Version 1.0.1817 is at http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostInstall.exe

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_programs.php#0036-PW

Also at Major Geeks. The ACF desc. needs a link revision - new info will be:

Program: Agnitum Outpost Firewall (Free) (v 1.0.1817)
Company: Agnitum Ltd.
W: LFW
Ware: v 1.0.1817
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1056.html

FYI -> outpostinstall.exe (2555 KB)

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[Paulie Walnuts]

No its not

Where does it fall short vs. ZA and the last free vers of Kerio??? Thanks

 

[hummingbird]

Where does it fall short vs. ZA and the last free vers of Kerio??? Thanks

Afaik it doesn't monitor outgoing connections, only incoming.
Somebody will confirm this (or not).

 

[Marko]

Afaik it doesn't monitor outgoing connections, only incoming.
Somebody will confirm this (or not).

Yes that is correct. Though Vista's will monitor both incoming and
outgoing apparently. Anyway sorry for the OT.

 

[hummingbird]

Yes that is correct. Though Vista's will monitor both incoming and
outgoing apparently.

MS playing catch-up eh? ;-)

 

[elaich]

Yes that is correct. Though Vista's will monitor both incoming and
outgoing apparently. Anyway sorry for the OT.

But Vista's will be configured to let all the nanny progs belonging to M$
to pass. The only way to have any real control is to install a third party
progs.

 

[elaich]

Where does it fall short vs. ZA and the last free vers of Kerio???
Thanks

It only works one way. Incoming.

 

[David]

Now that sygate was bought out and they are scrapping it, what other
options are there Freeware/Open-Source wise?

Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2.3.912 (Freeware/Shareware in one)
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
Comodo Personal Firewall (FREE for 365 days)
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
CORE Force
http://force.coresecurity.com/

None of the above will run on Win9x.

Zone Alarm Free
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

The only one which will run on Win9x bur it has become so bloated as
to almost completely useless. I've gone back to running a very early
version to control outgoing content and I use SmoothWall as my gateway
to prevent unrequested incoming attacks.

And I liked Sygate too, darn always the good ones that die young.

LOL.

 

[David]

Version 1.0.1817 is at http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostInstall.exe
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_programs.php#0036-PW

From the site:

"Release date: 2002
Version: 1.0 (1817)
Size, MB: 2.71"

and

"Important Notes

* Please note Agnitum does not provide personal Support Service or
any other advice via email for Outpost Firewall FREE.
* We strongly recommend that you uninstall all other firewalls
before installing Outpost Firewall. Running Outpost along with any
other firewall software will very likely result in system instability
(i.e. crashes) and almost certainly will result in Outpost operating
in an insecure fashion.
* Outpost Firewall is not compatible with Jammer.
* We do not guarantee that Outpost Firewall will run on Microsoft
ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) gateway (computer connecting two
networks and transmitting packages from one network to another)
running Windows2000 Service Pack 2 or Windows XP."

It seems obvious that the authors are no longer interested in
maintaining or, even, hearing about this software.

 

[David]

Why not use the Windows XP SP2 provided firewall?
Its as good or as bad as any firewall.

just my 2 cents,
Reinhardt

Except that it provides no outgoing protection.

 

[David]

MS playing catch-up eh? ;-)

Still!

 

[rjdriver]

Zone Alarm Free
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

The only one which will run on Win9x bur it has become so bloated as
to almost completely useless. I've gone back to running a very early
version to control outgoing content and I use SmoothWall as my gateway
to prevent unrequested incoming attacks.

I agree. Bloated and trying to do too much. I am still using v4.5


Get one of the older versiosn here:
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm

Bob

 

[hummingbird]

Still!

The lumbering g i a n t moves soooo s l o w l y!

 

[Tim]

If this is true, is it going to be the biggest OS shoot-yourself-in-the-foot MFU
of all time? I fear so. How can 1 company be so completely dense?

The port-hackers must be rubbing their hands in glee...

Linux. Safe.
Vista. Rob my house!

 

[Morten Skarstad]

hummingbird skrev:

Afaik it doesn't monitor outgoing connections, only incoming.

So what? Having this feature in a personal firewall is nonsense IMNSFHO.
If you want to block outgoing traffic, you do this at some point outside
the computer(s) that might generate the traffic. Trusting that a piece
of software running on your computer can do anything to stop outgoing
traffic if the computer somehow gets compromised is optimistic at best.

And even if it could be trusted, what would it matter? How can blocking
outgoing traffic prevent your computer from being compromised in the
first place?