Re: Time to ditch Sygate firewall?

Margaret Wilson wrote:

> Interesting choice in AV software. I chose NOD32 as well! I've
> been very pleased with it. Much better than NAV in my opinion. I
> did the firewall eval thing quite a while ago, and my choice is
> Black ICE. I know some people say it's not a "real" firewall
> because it doesn't scan outgoing traffic. Well, if those people
> actually read the manual, they'd know there's a switch you can use
> in firewall.ini to have it scan outgoing traffic.

If you can edit a text file to turn it on, malware can edit the text
file to turn it off. (Never used BlackIce for this reason.)

> Personally, I prefer to start with a known-clean system and then
> simply scan incoming traffic. My network sits behind a NAT
> firewall, however, so that provides some additional protection
> (again, not against outgoing traffic). Anyway, before I found
> BlackICE, my fav was Tiny Firewall, which I believe became Kerio,
> which I understand is now no longer being updated IIRC.....

Kerio is alive and well. And a very good firewall. Free for home use.
Yes, it monitors both inbound and outbound traffic.
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

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