Personal Firewall
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Topic: Personal Firewall
Posted By: Amateur
Subject: Personal Firewall
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 1:16pm
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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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Replies:
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 1:23pm
| Sygate personal firewall is quite good for the price (it's free) |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 1:26pm
| I have tried Sygate but it wont install correctly on my PC for some reason. Any others worth a look? |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 2:21pm
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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! |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 2:36pm
| IMHO ZoneAlarm sucks, it slows your PC down to a halt and crashes... Sticking a antivirus scanner in there aswell made it even slower |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 2:39pm
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. |
huwnet wrote:Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 5:11am
| If you have SP2 installed it is most likely that the built in firewall is turned on |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 6:17am
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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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 11:53am
| For most people the SP2 firewall should be quite ok. |