Re: alternate to firewall?

Thankyou VB, james and casey for your responses.

I should have explained some more. I have being using tiny firewall for
quite a while but now i have bought a router and i do believe (please
correct me if i'm wrong) i don't need the "main" use of the firewall
anymore. But tiny like other firewall products i have used in the past (ZA,
Sygate) it pops up when a new program starts and asks whether it is
trustworthy etc. or if the file has changed since the last time is was run
etc. I find this quite useful and was wondering whether there were any
programs that did JUST that.

However i would like to know which firewall software is currently regarded
as the best. I would rather a firewall that uses minimum system resources.
Any trustworthy third-party websites with features, effectiveness, etc?

All comments welcome.
AHA

ashecorven

<jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> ashecorven wrote:
>> ATM I am using Tiny Firewall but i no longer have a need for it
>> apart from popping up when a new process starts up and
>> asking whether it should be trusted (this time only / always)
>> or not, etc.
>>
>> are there any programs available that do just this? any recommendations?
>>
>> ashecorven
>
> what else is it doing that you don't want it to do?
>
> if it did 'just that' then it wouldn't be a firewall. firewalls block
> incoming too. but that's mostly invisible. So you gotta say what it
> is doing that is a nuisance to you. Maybe the graphical user interface
> is cluttered. Sygate has a nice interface, you might want to try that.
>
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:10:58 2005