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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Entwood on 18 January 2008, 23:25:14
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I have for a long time used/advised/given folks the free version of Sygate Firewall that is very effective and very simple to use. Unfortunately Sygate were taken over by Norton (who I won't touch with the proverbial) and it has never been updated.
Now it still works really well on XP and below .. but does not work on Vista.
Can anyone recommend a free, simple (and by that I mean it asks allow/block and remember answer options like Sygate did on every incoming and outgoing program and a simple click response is enough) and effective firewall that I can suggest to those idiots folks buying systems with Vista pre-installed, as we all know how useless windows firewall really is!!
Thanks
Entwood
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Spybot S & D is pretty good at stopping unwanted access to/from your PC. My system seems to be pretty good for viruses, I have an ASDL Modem, with its hardware firewall, which then goes into a wireless/network router with yet another firewall, then to the PC's/laptops, running Spybot. I haven't tried it on VISTA yet, but it should work.
Mind you what is fun is if you have Norton and AVG on a machine at the same time. Norton finds something suspicious, and moves it to its quarantine, AVG find it and says "don't like this", and moves it to its own quarantine, which upsets Norton, that moves it to .....etc. Quite entertaining, until you realise the computer is useless until you stop these stupid programs !.
All good clean fun !.
Ken
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Zonealarm?
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FDISK?
XP Pro SP2?
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FDISK?
Doesn't the text based part of the WinXP install have it's own partition utility?
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Coming from a computer technician and it may sound stupid but I think the best firewall you can get is the one that comes installed with Windows. Used with Spybot S&D and AVG free anti-virus You won't have any problems at all. I play about with viruses all day and touch wood I have never had a problem. Also if you use the windows security centre you can tell the firewall what programmes you want to let through and block
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had avg for a while,which is very good.recently added zone alarm which seems ok so far.
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FDISK?
XP Pro SP2?
;D ;D ;D
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I use a hardware firewall... and antivirus on the PC itself.
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Zonealarm?
Yep.Zone alarm ..
I'm using for a long time never had problems..Even work happy with virus scanners..
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I cannot recommend any software firewall that runs on a desktop computer.
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I cannot recommend any software firewall that runs on a desktop computer.
Are there any software VPN server applications that run on a windows server without the server being at risk? Or in a VM?
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I cannot recommend any software firewall that runs on a desktop computer.
Are there any software VPN server applications that run on a windows server without the server being at risk? Or in a VM?
the server should firewalled (with firewall ideally on an edge device). Windows Server's own RRAS is pretty good. Obviously most *nix have ssh.
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I cannot recommend any software firewall that runs on a desktop computer.
Are there any software VPN server applications that run on a windows server without the server being at risk? Or in a VM?
the server should firewalled (with firewall ideally on an edge device). Windows Server's own RRAS is pretty good. Obviously most *nix have ssh.
Is that a yes? :-? ;)
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I cannot recommend any software firewall that runs on a desktop computer.
Are there any software VPN server applications that run on a windows server without the server being at risk? Or in a VM?
the server should firewalled (with firewall ideally on an edge device). Windows Server's own RRAS is pretty good. Obviously most *nix have ssh.
Is that a yes? :-? ;)
Yes, most Windows Server 2003 versions come with RRAS (|Routing and remote access) that allows remote access to your network via PPTP tunnels or IPSEC tunnels (or dial-up etc with correct hardware).
Like all servers, firewall off unneeded ports though!
Using tunnels on the client may affect other connectivity while the tunnel is running for obvious reasons
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I cannot recommend any software firewall that runs on a desktop computer.
Are there any software VPN server applications that run on a windows server without the server being at risk? Or in a VM?
the server should firewalled (with firewall ideally on an edge device). Windows Server's own RRAS is pretty good. Obviously most *nix have ssh.
Is that a yes? :-? ;)
Yes, most Windows Server 2003 versions come with RRAS (|Routing and remote access) that allows remote access to your network via PPTP tunnels or IPSEC tunnels (or dial-up etc with correct hardware).
Like all servers, firewall off unneeded ports though!
Using tunnels on the client may affect other connectivity while the tunnel is running for obvious reasons
Cheers! :y
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Zonealarm?
Yep.Zone alarm ..
I'm using for a long time never had problems..Even work happy with virus scanners..
Also I must note that I'm using zonealarm for protecting me from curious cats who got high access rights in the LAN ;D