Best firewall for XP home

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That's exactly what I'm saying. My experience is that although the
rule works for the session, when you restart Kerio it has
disappeared.
This is only in version 2.1.5, not the 4.0.16 version.
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I see this occasionally with 2.1.5 running under 98se but not under XP.
 
»Q« said:
I see this occasionally with 2.1.5 running under 98se but not under XP.
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Well, all ah can says is whats I sees, and that's exactly what I saw
on two XP machines. As I said somewhere, it might have something to do
with administrator privileges.
 
Hello said:
I'm still learning about it, but aftry trying 3( a french one called
lookspit, or somesthing like that, kerio, and sygate) I'm staying
with sygate
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LOL

Look'n'Stop is very nice. For a while...

It is irritating cos it offers so much more than it delivers.
 
Well, all ah can says is whats I sees, and that's exactly what I saw
on two XP machines. As I said somewhere, it might have something to do
with administrator privileges.
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So no possibilty then of making a mistake in reading and comparing the two
sets of rules or, perhaps more likely, of the user forgetting to click on
'Apply' and 'OK' after creating a new rule?

Much more logical, and rational, to say that they 'disappeared'. Perhaps it
was cosmic rays? :-)

Cheers,

Roy
 
I'll betcha it doesn't filter outgoing.
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Not sure on that. Here's what Paul Thurrott says about the SP2 firewall:

"In use, Windows Firewall is slightly less annoying than competing firewalls
like Zone Alarm, and it's even on during boot-up, which will provide
additional protection during a usually vulnerable time. In Windows, the
first time an application receives a message from over a network connection,
Windows Firewall will pop-up a dialog box, which you must respond to before
any data transfer takes place. "

Dunno if that means it catches phoning home or not. I certainly hope so, but
I'm not too optimistic.

Bob
 
Bob Adkins said:
Think about waiting a couple of weeks and try out the new, improved XP SP2
firewall. ;)
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I'm using RC2. It's not bad but not perfect. It automatically allows
Windows services so could be spoofed. Also when it comes up with the
"allow/deny" option, the program it refers to still has internet access
until you click deny.
 
I'm using RC2. It's not bad but not perfect. It automatically allows
Windows services so could be spoofed. Also when it comes up with the
"allow/deny" option, the program it refers to still has internet access
until you click deny.
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Allow/Deny... outgoing, or only incoming?

Bob
 
Roy said:
So no possibilty then of making a mistake in reading and comparing the two
sets of rules or, perhaps more likely, of the user forgetting to click on
'Apply' and 'OK' after creating a new rule?
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No possibility of that at all. I meticulously compared the before and
after, tried clicking both "Apply" and "OK". Even tried saving the new
rules and then reopening them, and that failed.
Much more logical, and rational, to say that they 'disappeared'.
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That is in fact what I said in message #
(e-mail address removed)
Perhaps it was cosmic rays? :-)
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I don't deny that I could have missed some option or the like.
However, I did try everything I could think of at the time. And I
*had* given the system only one user with administrative privileges. I
went through that user to install Kerio.
 
I'm using RC2. It's not bad but not perfect. It automatically allows
Windows services so could be spoofed. Also when it comes up with the
"allow/deny" option, the program it refers to still has internet access
until you click deny.
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Does that mean the program that is trying to access the Net is still
actively sending data out to the Net BEFORE you click "Deny"?

If so, that's braindead.

This article http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/04q1/sp2-beta-1.html
discusses the features of the new firewall.

You can specify which programs are allowed to accept incoming
connections from the Net. Also, it will only open ports when the
specified programs are running - they are closed otherwise. Since you
have to list the programs allowed, this would seem to me to prevent
any program from calling out that you haven't explicitly allowed to do
so.
 
Well, all ah can says is whats I sees, and that's exactly what I saw
on two XP machines. As I said somewhere, it might have something to do
with administrator privileges.
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I have never had trouble creating or editing rules under XP with kerio
2.1.5. Are you sure you are saving the rule after making it? I have
put Keio 2.1.5 on many machines running XP with no new rules ever lost.
Something is wrong with your setup. I wonder is your XP is having to
frequently restore a registry file as it boots, due to registry
corruption. The restored registry file would of course not have the
rules you added in the previous window's session. Whatever is going on,
I doubt it is a Kerio problem.


--
Dennis Roark

(e-mail address removed)
Starting Points:
http://sio.midco.net/denro/www
 
I have never had trouble creating or editing rules under XP with kerio
2.1.5. Are you sure you are saving the rule after making it? I have
put Keio 2.1.5 on many machines running XP with no new rules ever lost.
Something is wrong with your setup. I wonder is your XP is having to
frequently restore a registry file as it boots, due to registry
corruption. The restored registry file would of course not have the
rules you added in the previous window's session. Whatever is going on,
I doubt it is a Kerio problem.
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Well, if one of you has administrator privs and the other doesn't, and the
one with can save the rules and the one without can't, I'd say that's the
reason right there. Obviously it takes administrator privs to make rule
changes.
 
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