Re: alternate to firewall?

"Duane Arnold" <notme@notme.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96DDDAB262ED5notmenotmecom@207.217.125.201...
> "ashecorven" <gharoway@netspace.net.au> wrote in
> news:dh8tic$1lth$1@otis.netspace.net.au:
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, some say yes and some say no. If you're practicing safe hex, have a
> router that does logging so you can watch inbound and outbound traffic to
> and from the router and basically know what you're doing like looking for
> dubious remote connections and using proper tools to help in the
> detection process, then no you don't need a PFW/packet filter solution to
> supplement the router.
>
> But most home users don't know how, and therefore, some use a PFW/packet
> filter solution to supplement the router as most routers for home usage
> cannot stop outbound if needed. And I am not talking about the worthless
> Application Control in PFW solutions but rather the ability to stop
> outbound by at least setting filtering rules to stop outbound by port or
> IP.
>
>> 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.
>
> It's worthless as malware can circumvent and defeat it. It can be
> defeated at the computer boot process as malware can get to the TCP/IP
> connection first and be done before the PFW solution can even start and
> get there to do anything. Anything running at the machine level with the
> computer's O/S suspect to being attacked and defeated.
>
>>
>> However i would like to know which firewall software is currently
>> regarded as the best.
>
> None of them as they all do the same thing some with more bells and
> whistles than others.
>
>
> I would rather a firewall that uses minimum
>> system resources. Any trustworthy third-party websites with features,
>> effectiveness, etc?
>
> Snake oil

Understood.

>
> Duane :)
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:11:08 2005