Best software firewall in the world ???
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Topic: Best software firewall in the world ???
Posted By: ngaisteve1
Subject: Best software firewall in the world ???
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 2:08am
| What do you folks think is the best software firewall in the world? Not just secure but also reasonable price. Bottom line, overall is the best. |
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 2:27am
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Sygate pro is great, but at the minute im using norton internet security 2003. I might change back to sygate though because norton seems to slow down your pc. Mart. |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 4:29am
RACF, but it runs on an IBM Mainframe 
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 4:37am
The best firewall is place your PC in a lead box and throw it in the sea. No one will get in then 
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Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 7:08am
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I use the Mcaffee suite and I think it is brilliant. I think it the best.. Sygate is cool too ------------- If you dont want my peaches, dont shake my tree |
Posted By: fernan82
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 7:12am
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The best personal firewall is sygate IMO, Norton drains your resources, ZA too and lacks a lot of functionality, McAffee just sucks... ------------- FeRnAN http://www.danasoft.com/"> 
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Posted By: BOB1
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 10:28am
| ZoneAlarm is good... |
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 11:36am
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It will take me driving 200 Km to reach the sea from my place in Cairo, can i just through it in the Nile, it is only meters away, or the Nile is not secure enough and if I did, how can i still be able to connect to?
No way, I vote for Norton, even if it will make my PC slower. |
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 12:04pm
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When i installed ZoneAlarm my Pc chrashed loooooads. Then i uninstalled it then installed sygate my pc hasnt chrashed since and its a lot faster. Mart. |
Posted By: BOB1
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 12:05pm
How strong is your computer? p2?p3?p4? sd-ram?ddram?... |
Posted By: Boecky
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 2:06pm
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I liked to use Kerio personal firewall, but I use a router now...lots better |
Posted By: ngaisteve1
Date Posted: 29 October 2003 at 9:44pm
| I got a good comparison link here. http://www.agnitum.com/php_scripts/compare2.php - http://www.agnitum.com/php_scripts/compare2.php |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 7:47am
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I used to use ZoneAlarm year ago, but it really sucks now. I've tried it out several times [on good machines] and each time the results were disastrous. I've sworn never to waste my time again with it. At the moment, the only firewall I use is http://www.syworks.com/ - CyberWall and it does a great job. I can basically ignore it and the CPU usage is very small. Unfortunately, it is only available in Korean. I'm the only person other than the company who has an English edition... Not very helpful I guess... IBM uses it here in Korea if that means anything. As for other firewalls, I've never really found anything that impressed me much. I did like one CA firewall a few years ago. Can't remember what it's called now though...
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 9:48am
| I have used Zonelarm and it crashed my computer even though none of it programs or services were running! |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 9:49am
| What is the link to the sygate website? |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 11:48am
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zone alarm really sucks pig sh*t.. no wonder why they give it away for free.. bcuz no one would purchase it either ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 12:51pm
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huwnet: http://www.sygate.com - www.sygate.com , It wasnt my hardware that was the problem it was causing software to chrash it etc. Mart. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 2:46pm
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I just use the one built into win XP. Does the job as well as any other firewall. All they do is block ports, but block to many and you will strangle your Internet connection and bandwidth. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 4:11pm
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I use Norton Internet Security, but those damn messages keep crashing my games. That sux, the firewall is quite good. ------------- Gone.. |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 1:20am
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I uninstalled Zonealarm and now my computer isn't crashing. I installed Sygate instead. Borg, The windows firewall is unsafe. Microsoft issued an offical notices about it (Knowledge base) |
Posted By: silverwings
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 12:00pm
I found this thread very enlightening. I've used ZA and several other firewall that I've had the good sense to forget about and am now using sygate. I'm very pleased with it performance. ZA was causing all kinds of problems and Bull-guard sucked big time!!
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 31 October 2003 at 2:36pm
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At least ZA does something, i tested out armour2net it look real good (the gui) but it doesnt do anything. Use sygate its the best. Mart. |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 03 November 2003 at 7:56am
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