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    Posted: 06 April 2005 at 1:16pm
Hi all,
 
I am considering installing a personal firewall on my PC. Does anyone know of and recomend any free personal firewalls?
 
 
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Sygate personal firewall is quite good for the price (it's free)
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I have tried Sygate but it wont install correctly on my PC for some reason. Any others worth a look?
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That may be because you havent rebooted after install or you havent turned off the built in firewall.

Try zonealarm but I have always had problems with it!
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IMHO ZoneAlarm sucks, it slows your PC down to a halt and crashes... Sticking a antivirus scanner in there aswell made it even slower
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Originally posted by huwnet huwnet wrote:

That may be because you havent rebooted after install or you havent turned off the built in firewall.

Try zonealarm but I have always had problems with it!
 
I rebooted after install alright. I was not aware of the built in firewall. I am using MS Win XP Home edition, does this contain such?
 
When i installed sygate and attempted to open/run it, nothing happended, PC didnt hang or anything.
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If you have SP2 installed it is most likely that the built in firewall is turned on
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Originally posted by huwnet huwnet wrote:

If you have SP2 installed it is most likely that the built in firewall is turned on
 
I do have SP2 installed. Would the firewall that comes with this be sufficent or should I go about installing a seperate personal firewall and turn this one off?
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