Good Firewall

[nekrosoft13]

recommend me a good firewall

[Capt. Picard]

recommend me a good firewall

say please :)

[Daydre@m]

recommend me a good firewall
Windows Firewall :p

Ok, jokes aside try these:

- Panda's Firewall
- Kaspersky's Antivirus and Firewall
- Mcafee
- Zone Alarm
- Symantec's Norton Antivirus

[nekrosoft13]

you mentioned mcafee in that post, that has to be a joke

[K007]

lol norton..

[Daydre@m]

you mentioned mcafee in that post, that has to be a joke
Well I tried the McAfee Internet Security Suite long ago and it worked just alright. These days I am using kaspersky antivirus and firewall and its working quite good. I have also tried Norton Internet security but it just kills my system so I dont actually use it, but some of my friends like it. For anti virus norton corporate is good and does not take that many resources.

[retsam]

Cisco pix...or sonic wall is good.

[retsam]

now if your asking about an application layer firewall...they all suck ass..but i like this http://www.provantage.com/firewall-pcmcia-lan-cards-type-ii~22074186.htm

[mullet]

lol layer 7 firewall, wow that kills bandwidth. I think he was thinking about a software firewall.

[retsam]

lol layer 7 firewall, wow that kills bandwidth. I think he was thinking about a software firewall.ummm...no... it adds latency, it doesnt kill bandwidth or througput..

[retsam]

he didnt specifiy what he needed it for and he didnt get into anything out of side asking for a good firewall.... all those toy routers have horrible firewalls, so to me a good firewall is a statefull packet inspector. so to me i gave him the proper answer, a good firewall.

[rewt]

Sure, Cisco pix and other types of hardware firewalls are the best. But only if the user knows what the hell they are doing. Most users don't have the knowledge or patience for this kind of thing. They want something affordable and easy to use.

[nekrosoft13]

don't need a hardware firewall, thats why this thread is in software, not hardware

i just want a good software firewall thats low on recourses, will detect programs trying to access the web, and build in ad-blocker would be nice too.

[mullet]

This is a good lill software firewall, has a small footprint and the traffic log is awsome. I usta use this before I got a router, its the best software firewall I ever used.

Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6
http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160

[Boogalo]

i've been pretty happy with netlimiter's firewall functions.

[Banko]

When I used to run a software firewall I used to use Tiny Personal Firewall, don't know if it still exists though.

[supra]

i use kerio personal firewall

[nekrosoft13]

is kerio worth the high price?

and what do you people use for ad-blocker? kerio doesn't have it right?

[Parts]

Ive been using Zonealarm Pro ver 4.5.594 for a few years now, in my opinion the last good release before ZoneLabs got bought by CheckPoint, I tried upgrading to the newer "CheckPoint owned" versions a few times but all later versions caused CPU hangs and other problems so I just gave up and have been using this old one, and ive never had any issues at all.

Keep in mind this version does NOT work with SP2 in Windows XP, and installing it on SP2 will just crash your computer as soon as the driver loads.

[Redeemed]

I've been using the latest update of Zone Alarm Pro as well without a problem- I love it.

In fact, I'm always recommending it to customers at work. Haven't come across a better software firewall yet.

[SLippe]

Windows XP Firewall + Linksys Router + Ad-Aware SE + Spybot S&D + Firefox 2.0

Anti-virus = AVG Free (for now)

[Rakeesh]

I don't see whats wrong with just using a NAT router, even if it's an el cheapo, as your only firewall. Then whatever ports you want to allow for incoming, just use port forwarding. I don't see any need for blocking outgoing ports, unless you are a bit absent minded when it comes to security in the first place.

[grey_1]

I've been using the latest update of Zone Alarm Pro as well without a problem- I love it.

In fact, I'm always recommending it to customers at work. Haven't come across a better software firewall yet.
Same here, never a problem.

[Dr.Nick]

I agree, Zone Alarm is quite good and light on resources. About a month ago I switched to ZA's Security Suite and I'm quite impressed; all this protection and its using much less than half the ram Spyware Doctor did. The suite is only $10 more than just the firewall so its a much better value even if you dont need AV or extras

[supra]

is kerio worth the high price?

and what do you people use for ad-blocker? kerio doesn't have it right?

i found it is. and yes it has a good ad blocker built in

edit:nvm. just checked up on the website. personal firewall no longer available only corporate.