Best free firewall?

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Contenders:

ZA 4.5 (I've heard bad things about v5)
Sygate
Kerio (v4 or 2.xx)
Outpost

I have XP Home Ed. Thanks.
 
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Contenders:

ZA 4.5 (I've heard bad things about v5)
Sygate
Kerio (v4 or 2.xx)
Outpost
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My favorite is Kerio 2.xx. Works like a charm with file sends on IRC.

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Contenders:

ZA 4.5 (I've heard bad things about v5)
Sygate
Kerio (v4 or 2.xx)
Outpost

I have XP Home Ed. Thanks.
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Sygate - good interface, easy to set up, you can also add special rules. I dumped ZoneAlarm
last year & have never looked back.
 
AhHA! said:
Contenders:

ZA 4.5 (I've heard bad things about v5)
Sygate
Kerio (v4 or 2.xx)
Outpost

I have XP Home Ed. Thanks.
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I guess most posters will post to either Sygate or Kerio.

Peronally I run both (on different computers, of course). a have a sleigth
prefference for sygate.

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AhHA! said:
Contenders:

ZA 4.5 (I've heard bad things about v5)
Sygate
Kerio (v4 or 2.xx)
Outpost

I have XP Home Ed. Thanks.
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I like Kerio 2.1.5 best. v4.x hand holds too much and tried to do too much
IMO. ZA - all versions I've tried either lock up, die, or peg the CPU.

I've never tried Sygate or Outpost.

Karen
http://scootgirl.com/
 
I've been using Zone Alarm (always the most current free version) for a few
years, both on my old win98 pc and now on my XPHome pc...Never noticed any
problems with it so I'm somewhat baffled by the often negative view some
folks on here have. What do people feel are the drawbacks to ZA?

kline
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I've used ZoneAlarm Free for years also. The only problem I've had
with it is that it is difficult and tricky to uninstall. If you
uninstall it wrong, it makes it impossible to get connected to the
Net. I've not had any other problems with it.
 
I've been using Zone Alarm (always the most current free version) for a few
years, both on my old win98 pc and now on my XPHome pc...Never noticed any
problems with it so I'm somewhat baffled by the often negative view some
folks on here have. What do people feel are the drawbacks to ZA?

kline
 
Chaos Master <[email protected]> wrote:
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My favorite is Kerio 2.xx. Works like a charm with file sends on IRC.
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I would agree with you, but in another thread:

<[email protected]>

http://www.firewallleaktester.com/wwdc.htm

Check the link. The site has several programs you can run to test outbound
capabilities. Kerio 2.1.5 ranks pretty low. I'm doing the various tests now.

These are trojan type tests it looks like, rather than the solicitation type
tests at GRC.

I'm trying the tests listed for XP for which Kerio 2.1.5 is reported to be
vulnerable. I'm completely updated critical updatewise. I score perfect stealth
at GRC:

TooLeaky (defeated Kerio)
PCAudit (unsuccessful)
AWFT (9/10 defeats Kerio)
Thermite (defeated Kerio)
CopyCat (defeated Kerio)
WB (defeated Kerio)
PCAudit (defeated Kerio)
Ghost (defeated Kerio)
DNSTester (defeated Kerio)
Surfer (defeated Kerio)

Man, either my Kerio settings are way off or the firewall is very ineffective
for these types of exploits!

I'm going to repost this with another subject: "Kerio 2.1.5 Vulnerabilities!"
due to the many people who use this firewall.
 
http://www.firewallleaktester.com/wwdc.htm

Check the link. The site has several programs you can run to test outbound
capabilities. Kerio 2.1.5 ranks pretty low. I'm doing the various tests now.

These are trojan type tests it looks like, rather than the solicitation type
tests at GRC.

I'm trying the tests listed for XP for which Kerio 2.1.5 is reported to be
vulnerable. I'm completely updated critical updatewise. I score perfect stealth
at GRC:

TooLeaky (defeated Kerio)
PCAudit (unsuccessful)
AWFT (9/10 defeats Kerio)
Thermite (defeated Kerio)
CopyCat (defeated Kerio)
WB (defeated Kerio)
PCAudit (defeated Kerio)
Ghost (defeated Kerio)
DNSTester (defeated Kerio)
Surfer (defeated Kerio)

Man, either my Kerio settings are way off or the firewall is very ineffective
for these types of exploits!

I'm going to repost this with another subject: "Kerio 2.1.5 Vulnerabilities!"
due to the many people who use this firewall.
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just done the LeakTest and ZA blocked it. I'll run the other tests later
when I get the time.

kline
 
I've used ZoneAlarm Free for years also. The only problem I've had
with it is that it is difficult and tricky to uninstall. If you
uninstall it wrong, it makes it impossible to get connected to the
Net.
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Agree. It imbeds itself in concrete on the motherboard.
 
Chrissy said:
I have a sleight prefference for intelligble posting.
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I'd say, unless you have a spell-checker, don't post spelling
flames...but that's just me.
 
Contenders:

ZA 4.5 (I've heard bad things about v5)
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I don't like this, not enough control.
Sygate
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I would use this except I use proxomitron and other local proxies like
POPfile.
Kerio (v4 or 2.xx)
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Kerio 2 is nice, but it does seem to be getting old (the vulnerability to
fragamented packets that was posted a few months ago for example) and
eventually like
the loyal users of Atguard you will eventually have to move.

Kerio 4 is the answer of course, but it has a lot of problems. The
additonal process monitoring might be useful since it helps you beat leak
tests, but the last time I tried it didn't seem very good and missed
quite a few.

Outpost
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I read it practically abandoned.

I hate to say this, but none of the freeware alternatives look too good
to me now.
 
I would agree with you, but in another thread:

<[email protected]>

http://www.firewallleaktester.com/wwdc.htm

Check the link. The site has several programs you can run to test outbound
capabilities. Kerio 2.1.5 ranks pretty low. I'm doing the various tests
now.

These are trojan type tests it looks like, rather than the solicitation
type tests at GRC.

I'm trying the tests listed for XP for which Kerio 2.1.5 is reported to be
vulnerable. I'm completely updated critical updatewise. I score perfect
stealth at GRC:

TooLeaky (defeated Kerio)
PCAudit (unsuccessful)
AWFT (9/10 defeats Kerio)
Thermite (defeated Kerio)
CopyCat (defeated Kerio)
WB (defeated Kerio)
PCAudit (defeated Kerio)
Ghost (defeated Kerio)
DNSTester (defeated Kerio)
Surfer (defeated Kerio)

Man, either my Kerio settings are way off or the firewall is very
ineffective for these types of exploits!

I'm going to repost this with another subject: "Kerio 2.1.5
Vulnerabilities!" due to the many people who use this firewall.
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I have used kerio 2x for quite some time (post @guard) and I still think
its fine, IIRC these are more the fact that they use IE or port 80 to get
thru the firewall and IMHO not such a big deal.

I always install kerio 2.15 on ppls computer where I know it will just be
left alown to run with the rules I set up, or if I give them a quick run
thru on how to do it on their own most ppl are fine with it.

L.
 
Contenders:

ZA 4.5 (I've heard bad things about v5)
Sygate
Kerio (v4 or 2.xx)
Outpost

I have XP Home Ed. Thanks.
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That would be the one that does what YOU want it to do. What's best for me
may be useless to you. I use the XP firewall as we are on a corporate
network with a hardware firewall.
 
AhHA! said:
Contenders:

ZA 4.5 (I've heard bad things about v5)
Sygate
Kerio (v4 or 2.xx)
Outpost

I have XP Home Ed. Thanks.
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ZoneAlarm

I'm running ZA 5.1.011.000 on XP home.
The earlier 5x versions slowed or stopped IE and Firefox 0.9.2.
It can't detect my, (not freeware) antivirus. (A big Don't Care.)
 
It was written by Al Smith[[email protected]] in message
I've used ZoneAlarm Free for years also. The only problem I've had
with it is that it is difficult and tricky to uninstall. If you
uninstall it wrong, it makes it impossible to get connected to the
Net. I've not had any other problems with it.
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ZoneAlarm totally broke my IRC file sends, and now it seems to break binaries
(yEnc) :/
 
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