Firewall

Post by **___** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:32 pm

can anyone suggest a light-weight easy to use firewall for xp? i just want one that really control and disable programs from using the net (not like the xp one)

Post by **Oxygene** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:01 pm

From my own experience,I can recommend Kerio Personal Firewall - reliable and puts you in control (you can control how programs connect to the net,control application behaviour etc).Not exactly lightweight,but certainly not a resource hog.

Post by **RentedMule** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:56 am

Running a firewall right on your machine is like making soldiers ride in a pinto with body armor rather than giving them a tank. If an exploit is found in the TCP/IP stack, your software firewall wont save you

Post by **___** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:42 am

but it is better than nothing. can't afford a hardware one

Post by **Fusion** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:27 am

Kerio Personal Firewall but if you have an older pc you could install smoothwall and use that as a hardware firewall, That is what I have done and works wounders on my network.

Post by **JohnDoe5808** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:48 pm

ZoneAlarm and maybe a router firewall.

Post by **Jeff** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:37 am

I second ZoneAlarm. Never had a problem (with a hacker) in 3 years of use.

Post by **___** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:06 pm

hmmm, i'll give a few of those a try. i remember trying zonealarm ages ago and hated it. maybe it has changed

Post by **dajar** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:46 am

Zone Alarm's working fine for me for some years. It hogs some memory, but I suppose at an affordable amount.

Post by **empireum** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:50 am

ZoneAlarm always nagged me because it threw up too many warnings...

Post by **wrm** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:41 am

i use zonealarm, the free edition ! the best free firewall for me..

Post by **Fusion** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:47 am

empireum wrote:ZoneAlarm always nagged me because it threw up too many warnings...

With the Pro version you can disable that.

Post by **empireum** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:12 am

Fusion wrote:
empireum wrote:ZoneAlarm always nagged me because it threw up too many warnings...
With the Pro version you can disable that.

But it's not free, is it? I'd rather use a free firewall.

Post by **Code-E** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:05 pm

I personally use outpost firewall and would recommend it to anyone.

Post by **___** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:37 pm

i forgot to mention free

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