The Best Firewall

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:16 pm

dawin45 wrote:

zone alarm got me full of adware,afther it accepted as a windows aplication a aplication named sombudy.exe, or it let it infect my scvhost.exe system file...
COMODO+avast+spyshelter

Zone Alarm can slow your system also..

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:40 pm

I use outpost, never failed me for 2 years of using it, and even without any anty-virus everything's fine

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:12 pm

dawin45 wrote:

zone alarm got me full of adware,afther it accepted as a windows aplication a aplication named sombudy.exe, or it let it infect my scvhost.exe system file...
COMODO+avast+spyshelter

ZoneAlarm is crap IMO. Don't bother with it.

I use Endian Firewall on a separate box which functions as both a router and a stateful firewall. It's a hardened Linux distro setup specifically to be a firewall appliance. It allows for both incoming and outgoing firewalls (you can choose to use outgoing or not), and allows multiple zones for security purposes.

Not sure if it's more than you are wanting to fool with, but I love it and it will run on a dinosaur machine (i.e. Pen III) if need be.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:51 am

I just use the native XP firewall - used it for years and never had an issue.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:18 pm

In ubuntu i use firestarter to configure the already built in firewall Wink

And my router of course.