Re: Time to ditch Sygate firewall?

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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 which I understand is now no longer being updated IIRC.....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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Hey thanks, I will take a look at this product.

Bob
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:03:25 2005