Best Firewall?

mortals

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mortals

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I know it has been asked many a time, but I'm just thinking of re-installing windows. So am looking for a good firewall. (also my current f-secure one keeps forgetting which programs are permitted to connect to the net, forever throwing up dialoges asking for confirmation)

For antivirus I am using F-Secure, mainly because I've been using it for a while but also because they seem pretty up on the new virus's etc, with the development of their new rootkit protection (BackLight), also it includes ad-aware pro.

On the firewall I already have a custom iptables+snort linux firewall/router which everything goes thru. But I just want a nice firewall which will allow me to do some nice app and port filtering, with the addition of IDS. I have heard loads of people recommend zonealarm but the last time I used that (few years at least) it was pretty buggy, caused problems and ended up making me re-install windows just to get rid of it :(.

Sygate looks like a popular one aswell, altho I read the support and development has stopped. Outpost and BlackICE look ok tho, The blackice IDS looks pretty good. :confused:
 
I'm leaning towards outpost atm due to the features and also the plugins :)

I would go for sygate but if the dev and support have stopped, the protection against new stuff isn't going to be too brilliant :(
 
mortals said:
I'm leaning towards outpost atm due to the features and also the plugins :)

I would go for sygate but if the dev and support have stopped, the protection against new stuff isn't going to be too brilliant :(
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That's cos they've been bought by Symantec (the ones who shall rot in hell forever for making Norton :mad: ). However being a firewall and not an AV then the support is not so critical, at least for now. I am currently considering some others but until I find something as good it will stay. ;)
 
anotherF said:
Kerio, Free and plenty to offer! Check it out!
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cool, looks pretty good :)

might give it a try. I have installed outpost and it passed all security tests but now whenever I run thunderbird it just crashes out :( the plugins I wanted to use don't work on the latest outpost either :rolleyes: good job I tried it before doing a new install.
 
NOD32 Anti-Virus
XP SP2 Firewall (will show you if stuff is trying to connect to the internet from your pc)
Netgear DG834 NAT+SPI Firewall (in conjunction with syslog on my PC to see what is trying to get in)
Adaware and Spybot - Search & Destroy
occasionally run hijackthis to pick out any nasties... which fortunately I never get ;)
 
cool, kerio and tiny seem to be rumoured to be the same :)

The problem with outpost/thunderbird seems to be some sort of conflict with email scanning of f-secure and outpost :( was reading outpost + norton has a similar conflict.

Am off to install kerio now :)
 
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