Phil

I have been advised that I should have one for my laptop which I use on my office net work as well as stand alone scoobynet interface( )

I have Norton personal firewall not installed (came with Norton Anti Virus) is this a good one

I've heard that the can be quite a pain

any advice would be appreciated


Phil

[Edited by phil_stephens - 5/29/2002 12:16:11 PM]

suba

the norton firewall is pretty easy to use. if you are using a personal firewall in the office, it will also stop people within the office to hack into your PC!

Chris_S199

Our company insists we use Norton Desktop Firewall and since we've got the rules set up now, it runs in the background with no problems. My personal preference is for ZoneAlarm which is very easy to use and free for personal use.

Chris

howardb

Another free software firewall for personal use is http://www.sygate.com/.

suba

...then goto www.grc.com and www.pcflank.com to check out how secure is your PC.

snowcrash

or zonealarm

from http://www.zonelabs.com (i think)

Dave_UK300

I use Zone Alarm and don't have any probs with that

shunty

tiny firewall 3 is the best personal one I've seen up to now.


shunty

[Edited by shunty - 5/29/2002 2:07:47 PM]

Rich D

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Zone Alarm is very good and free.

DJ Dunk

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Pesonally, I hated Zone Alarm. Caused me no end of problems.

I now use Sygate Personal Firewal

Phil

I actually have Norton Personal Firewall ready to install

so unless there are any horror stories about it then I will have a go tonight

Thanks guys for your advice


phil

MarkehB

Another vote for tiny

suba

IMHO, any mainstream personal firewall software are good enuf, such as tiny, zonealarm, norton, kerio, blackICE, etc. i have used a number of personal firewall and they will "generally" block most hack/port probe, etc.

best way is to check how good is your firewall by visiting www.grc.com and www.pcflank.com.

Phil

Have now installed it and it seems fine except there is a script error in the display (think thats right)

so i'm off to their website for advice now

Phil

Molds

Never use a PC on the Internet at work or from home, on any connection from 56K to T1!, without a firewall and an antivirus program.

Ever.

suba

me too never use a personal firewall until i saw how easy it was to hack into people's PCs on the office LAN! now, most of my PCs got personal firewall installed (including anti-spyware by ad-aware).

JackClark

"56K to T1" I'm alright then, I only get 28.8!!

Molds

...and 28.8, 14.4, 9600, 2400 etc.