having broadband installed - firewall needed!?!?!
10 February 2004, 09:00 AM
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having broadband installed - firewall needed!?!?!
hi all,
finally getting around to BB installation next week and quite concerned about getting wacked by numeruous viruses! Can anyone recommend a good system?
free would be good, although don't mind paying if it's worth the cost
Recommendations please!
finally getting around to BB installation next week and quite concerned about getting wacked by numeruous viruses! Can anyone recommend a good system?
free would be good, although don't mind paying if it's worth the cost
Recommendations please!
10 February 2004, 09:10 AM
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As a freebie you could do a lot worse than Sygate Personal Firewall (at bottom of page) or the Pro version (at top of page) which is about 48 dollars.
The free version is good and they seem to have ironed out most of the XP difficaulties it had
The Pro version is aimed more at the corporate users or so I'm told by my resident IT security specialist that recommended it in the first place
Sal
The free version is good and they seem to have ironed out most of the XP difficaulties it had
The Pro version is aimed more at the corporate users or so I'm told by my resident IT security specialist that recommended it in the first place
Sal
10 February 2004, 09:25 AM
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A good solution is to use a router in combination with software/personal firewalls on the PCs. Routers needn't be expensive, and they remove the any direct connection to the internet. Therefore anyone trying to connect to your external IP address just 'sees' the router, and not your PCs.
10 February 2004, 10:47 AM
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Another vote here for Sygate. I use it at home and its excellent. I also use a router as well although that has no firewall on it. If you want to be as secure as possible then a router with built in firewall will be a very good purchase as long as you know what you are doing with firewall rules and what needs to be let in and out of your conenction.
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10 February 2004, 11:32 AM
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Puff how have you got on with ipcop? Have you found that it fills up with logs really quickly on an old pc and need to keep clearing it so old hard drive doesnt fill up quick? What about rules, did you do it all through command line?
I ran ipcop for a couple of months and it slowed my connection right down after a while and I hated not being able to do any particular rules through the gui. I binned it after a couple of months and reverted back to just individual firewalls on each pc.
I ran ipcop for a couple of months and it slowed my connection right down after a while and I hated not being able to do any particular rules through the gui. I binned it after a couple of months and reverted back to just individual firewalls on each pc.
10 February 2004, 11:58 AM
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I currently use Norton PFW, which is very irritating and resource hungry. I wouldn't really recommend it TBH. It does do the Job, but there is better one out there.
It does works quite well though, only if you set everything up manually and doing scans to make sure it's doing the job - as default it (as with many other firewalls) it provides very minimal protection, so you need to make sure whatever you use is configured and doing the job (a good place to check the security of your system is http://www.grc.com/
But if you know what your doing There's some nice features, like the integrated web features, and the Java, Referer and inbuilt cookie blocking. And also permanent IP address range blocking - which'll stop all those virus ridden computers using comcast ISP (along with many others) in the states from trying to get in your computer.
And you should have a firewall anyway regardless of your connection speed.
It does works quite well though, only if you set everything up manually and doing scans to make sure it's doing the job - as default it (as with many other firewalls) it provides very minimal protection, so you need to make sure whatever you use is configured and doing the job (a good place to check the security of your system is http://www.grc.com/
But if you know what your doing There's some nice features, like the integrated web features, and the Java, Referer and inbuilt cookie blocking. And also permanent IP address range blocking - which'll stop all those virus ridden computers using comcast ISP (along with many others) in the states from trying to get in your computer.
And you should have a firewall anyway regardless of your connection speed.
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10 February 2004, 03:33 PM
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right, thanks all, reading the posts there doesn't seem to be a great deal of point in stopping at PC world on the way home and spending hard earned cash...
it looks like I can get some decent stuff for free?
it looks like I can get some decent stuff for free?
11 February 2004, 08:14 AM
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What's wrong with Zone Alarm??
I've had it on my pc for months together with Norton Anti-Virus and I haven't been hit with anything.
Zone Alarm seems okay for me
I've had it on my pc for months together with Norton Anti-Virus and I haven't been hit with anything.
Zone Alarm seems okay for me
11 February 2004, 09:32 AM
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Nothing wrong with Zone Alarm, I use it at home and it provides a good level of security.
Using the well known vulnerability checker at
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
Zone Alarm failed on only ONE port out of 1056, the newly used UPnP port. This should be resolved in the next release. Not only did Zone Alarm protect against all other port requests, it stealthed them, allowing legitimate usage (ie. online gaming) via user acknowledgement.
Using the well known vulnerability checker at
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
Zone Alarm failed on only ONE port out of 1056, the newly used UPnP port. This should be resolved in the next release. Not only did Zone Alarm protect against all other port requests, it stealthed them, allowing legitimate usage (ie. online gaming) via user acknowledgement.
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