Kerio firewall question

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Howdy: Had a HD crash and need to re-install my firewall. Been
running KPF 2.15 and was at their site and saw KPF 4. But that puppy
is twice the size of 2.15. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade
to that version (v4), or is it best to stick with the one I have??

Running Win98FE (just fine and no I don't want to upgrade to XP,
thank you very much!)
 
seabat said:
Howdy: Had a HD crash and need to re-install my firewall. Been
running KPF 2.15 and was at their site and saw KPF 4. But that puppy
is twice the size of 2.15. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade
to that version (v4), or is it best to stick with the one I have??

Running Win98FE (just fine and no I don't want to upgrade to XP,
thank you very much!)
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Kerio 4 is buggy and bloated, stick with 2.1.5
If you google this group for Kerio, you'll see that I'm not alone on this
one.

HTH Rod
 
Rod said:
Kerio 4 is buggy and bloated, stick with 2.1.5
If you google this group for Kerio, you'll see that I'm not alone on this
one.

HTH Rod
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I've tried kerio 4, and went to Sygate, as I didn't know about version 2.

4 was pretty horrid

mike
 
mike ring ([email protected]) said those last words:
I've tried kerio 4, and went to Sygate, as I didn't know about version 2.

4 was pretty horrid
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Kerio 2.1.5 was the first good firewall I ever used.
I use it on a Pentium 233 and you can barely notice that a firewall is running.

[]s
 
Kerio 2.1.5 was the first good firewall I ever used.
I use it on a Pentium 233 and you can barely notice that a firewall is
running.
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Well, on the strength of that I'm trying it; though isn't it perhaps out of
date or obsolescent?

(All my firewalls except kerio 4 have been good - I only left Zonealarm
because of a s***thoose rumour)

But Geodisk doesn't close down sygate, which adds a whole extra click to
maintenance

mike
 
Howdy: Had a HD crash and need to re-install my firewall. Been
running KPF 2.15 and was at their site and saw KPF 4. But that puppy
is twice the size of 2.15. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade
to that version (v4), or is it best to stick with the one I have??




Running Win98FE (just fine and no I don't want to upgrade to XP,
thank you very much!)
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Nor do you want to upgrade to Kerio V4. It operates trouble free
on very few configurations. V4 has been condemned for months in
comp.security.firewalls.

BoB
 
mike ring ([email protected]) said those last words:

Well, on the strength of that I'm trying it; though isn't it perhaps out of
date or obsolescent?
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It dates from April 2003. Yeah, a bit outdated, but it's the best firewall I've
found, still. I ran a port scan on my PC and all ports (except 80. I run a web
server) are closed.

Even pings are never answered (blocks some ICMP protocol). (Try running "ping
marreka.no-ip.com" in a Saturday evening - when I am always online).

The only problem was getting Kazaa to not blow with firewall warnings. But this
was solved with a general rule: Kazaa can access/receive connections on UDP/TCP
, any port.

[]s
 
Well, on the strength of that I'm trying it; though isn't it perhaps
out of date or obsolescent?
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Kerio 2.1.5 is not out of date. It works just as well as it ever did, and
is simply the best firewall there is.
 
On 23 Jun 2004 10:13:35 GMT, in alt.comp.freeware, the personage of scroob
<[email protected]>, courtesy of Message-id
and wondering whence the lambs & piglets said:
Kerio 2.1.5 is not out of date. It works just as well as it ever did, and
is simply the best firewall there is.
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Hear hear!!
 
It dates from April 2003. Yeah, a bit outdated, but it's the best
firewall I've found, still. I ran a port scan on my PC and all ports
(except 80. I run a web server) are closed.

Even pings are never answered (blocks some ICMP protocol). (Try
running "ping marreka.no-ip.com" in a Saturday evening - when I am
always online).
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Well, it's in, and appears to work very fine; the only problem is it asks
me whether to allow pings as they come, and I rarely know the source.

However, I'm just denying what I don't recognise - I'll see if I can see
any patterns before setting rules, which it seems to make remarkably easy.

And Geodisk can close it down, which makes the new version of Geodisk a
pure one-click operation.... loud cheers

mike
 
Well, it's in, and appears to work very fine; the only problem is it
asks me whether to allow pings as they come, and I rarely know the
source.
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The way to truly use all of Kerio's power is to learn to write rules. It's
very simple. Allow what you want by writing rules to allow it, and disallow
everything else. Then, you'll forget that Kerio is even there.
 
scroob typed:
The way to truly use all of Kerio's power is to learn to write rules.
It's very simple. Allow what you want by writing rules to allow it,
and disallow everything else. Then, you'll forget that Kerio is even
there.
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I like to write rules for CWS sites that deny traffic in either direction
and pop up an alert when they trigger. Helps me do HijackThis log analysis.
 
scroob typed:

I like to write rules for CWS sites that deny traffic in either
direction and pop up an alert when they trigger. Helps me do
HijackThis log analysis.
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You would need to know all the ips that CWS malware generally
communicates with to specifically indentity CWS. Something like sponge's
block list .





Aaron (my email is not munged!)
 
Aaron typed:
You would need to know all the ips that CWS malware generally
communicates with to specifically indentity CWS. Something like
sponge's block list .
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WebHelper publishes a list and is updated frequently. Whenever I discover
a new site I put it in the rules. Actually, most of the time I block all
255 addresses.
http://www.webhelper4u.com/CWS/index.html
 
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