Sygate Firewall

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Richard Steinfeld

Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
 
Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
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Been using SygatePF Pro for a couple of years now...very effective and
configurable and works effortlessly with my XP Pro.

Used in conjunction with my router firewall, I consider I am getting
optimum protection.
 
Been using SygatePF Pro for a couple of years now...very effective and
configurable and works effortlessly with my XP Pro.

Used in conjunction with my router firewall, I consider I am getting
optimum protection.
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I see little difference in Sygate Personal and Kerio 2.1.5. I like them
about equally, but use Kerio right now.

Bob

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Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
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I've been using it for a bit but Spybot S&D 1.3 seems to break it in so
much that it "forgets" program permissions.
 
Richard Steinfeld said:
Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
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I have posted this before, but here it is again.
I stopped using Sygate because I kept getting a message from Sygate that
read: "Port Scan Allowed".
One morning, in the span of a half hour, Sygate reported 31 Port Scans that
they allowed.
Lou
 
Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
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I use it and am very happy. No virii, hacks, malware, spyware, etc have
ever made their way to me (I do use a router as well...) as long as I
ahve used it. I was a Aone Alarm fan (with the reporting plugin) but it
was not configurable enough for me.

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| On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:09:32 +0100, Steve
<[email protected]>
| wrote:
|
| I see little difference in Sygate Personal and Kerio 2.1.5. I
like them
| about equally, but use Kerio right now.
|
| Bob
|

One profound difference between them is direct usability. Sygate
allows a novice end user to easily set up his own rules. It
displays which application on your box is phoning out. Sygate
also displays a more meaningful URL of the traffic's other end
(not just the "true" URL, which is just a bunch of numbers), and
has seamless traceroute and whois functions. In other words, it
allows you to almost instantly find out who's probing you.

I'd say that the difference between the two programs is profound!

But is Sygate spyware???

Richard
 
Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
Click to expand...

I've been using Sygate personal for the last 6 months or so & am very
happy with it. One of the best things about it is that you can save
the traffic/security logs, or copy & paste blocks of them into a
document. I've caused a few port scanners originating from my own
ISP to have their accounts terminated recently by sending the details
to abuse (I really, really hate that red icon that starts flashing in
my system tray when somebody's tried to scan me - at least it proves
that the firewall is working & to be sure it can be fully tested at
the Sygate site to verify).

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Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
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Sygate is an excellent firewall. I switch back and forth between Sygate
and Kerio 2.1.5. I like both of them...
 
| In article <[email protected]>,
| (e-mail address removed) says...
| > Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
| > I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
| > descriptions of their experiences.
|
| I've been using it for a bit but Spybot S&D 1.3 seems to break
it in so
| much that it "forgets" program permissions.
|
| --
| Conor
|

Conor, please explain in more detail. This sounds interesting,
but I'm not sure what you mean.

Thanks.

Richard
 
message
| | > Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
| > I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
| > descriptions of their experiences.
| > Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
| > "Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."
| >
| > Richard
| >
| I have posted this before, but here it is again.
| I stopped using Sygate because I kept getting a message from
Sygate that
| read: "Port Scan Allowed".
| One morning, in the span of a half hour, Sygate reported 31
Port Scans that
| they allowed.
| Lou
|

I've never had this experience in over a year of using two
different versions of Sygate Firewall. That's got me wondering if
you had accidentally changed a setting in the program or set up a
rule to allow the scan. Just a thought.

Richard
 
Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
Click to expand...

I've been using Sygate personal for the last 6 months or so & am very
happy with it. One of the best things about it is that you can save
the traffic/security logs, or copy & paste blocks of them into a
document. I've caused a few port scanners originating from my own
ISP to have their accounts terminated recently by sending the details
to abuse (I really, really hate that red icon that starts flashing in
my system tray when somebody's tried to scan me - at least it proves
that the firewall is working & to be sure it can be fully tested at
the Sygate site to verify).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This message was posted via one or more anonymous remailing services.
The original sender is unknown. Any address shown in the From header
is unverified.
 
Richard said:
Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
Click to expand...

Richard...if it works for you keep it. I heard great things about it (over
ZA at the time, and installed it). It worked great for about a year (that
was on Win 98). Then I stopped being able to get to the internet. Very
important in my life. ;) Played around and the only solution was to stop the
firewall to get to the internet and of course that wouldn't do. So at the
suggestion of some I installed (at the time Kerio 2.1.4)...this was still on
Win 98. In April of last year I bought and installed XP home and just
re-installed 2.14. Soon thereafter I think they came out with a small
security patch and it became 2.1.5, which I've got today.

I should explain I'm no expert, one is as good as the other but since Sygate
had problems (maybe my mix of software, maybe not), but Kerio had none of
that on two os's so far, so I'm sticking with that. AFAIKT Sygate is
probably fine, I just had problems with it. That's kind of the way with
software. If you're thinking of switching I'd also recommend yosponge's
page, I don't have a link but I think if you type yosponge into Google or
Yahoo you'll find it.

Good luck. :)
 
Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
descriptions of their experiences.
Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
"Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."

Richard
Click to expand...

I've been using Sygate personal for the last 6 months or so & am very
happy with it. One of the best things about it is that you can save
the traffic/security logs, or copy & paste blocks of them into a
document. I've caused a few port scanners originating from my own
ISP to have their accounts terminated recently by sending the details
to abuse (I really, really hate that red icon that starts flashing in
my system tray when somebody's tried to scan me - at least it proves
that the firewall is working & to be sure it can be fully tested at
the Sygate site to verify).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This message was posted via one or more anonymous remailing services.
The original sender is unknown. Any address shown in the From header
is unverified.
 
Richard...if it works for you keep it. I heard great things about it
(over ZA at the time, and installed it). It worked great for about a
year (that was on Win 98). Then I stopped being able to get to the
internet.
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Many more problems reported for both ZA and Sygate than Kerio. Kerio 2.1.5
may not work properly with Win XP though.
 
sabato 15/mag/2004 _scroob_ ha scritto:
Many more problems reported for both ZA and Sygate than Kerio. Kerio 2.1.5
may not work properly with Win XP though.
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Why? ISTM it's working well in my Win XP Home ed.
 
Richard Steinfeld said:
message
| | > Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?
| > I'd appreciate a few others chiming in with articulate
| > descriptions of their experiences.
| > Otherwise, I feel like a wolf howling alone in the night....
| > "Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo."
| >
| > Richard
| >
| I have posted this before, but here it is again.
| I stopped using Sygate because I kept getting a message from
Sygate that
| read: "Port Scan Allowed".
| One morning, in the span of a half hour, Sygate reported 31
Port Scans that
| they allowed.
| Lou
|

I've never had this experience in over a year of using two
different versions of Sygate Firewall. That's got me wondering if
you had accidentally changed a setting in the program or set up a
rule to allow the scan. Just a thought.

Richard
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I never changed a single thing when I installed Sygate.

Lou
 
Am I the only person on this board using Sygate firewall?

Nope! Not at all. I use it too... Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo.
LOL

I've been using Sygate personal for the last 6 months or so & am very
happy with it. One of the best things about it is that you can save
the traffic/security logs, or copy & paste blocks of them into a
document. I've caused a few port scanners originating from my own
ISP to have their accounts terminated recently by sending the details
to abuse (I really, really hate that red icon that starts flashing in
my system tray when somebody's tried to scan me - at least it proves
that the firewall is working & to be sure it can be fully tested at
the Sygate site to verify).
Click to expand...

One thing that I would like to ask: is there any way to export the traffic
log well formated? The columns don't get well aligned in the end.
Also, is there a way to export just some fields and select only one
type of traffic at a time to export?

One thing that I dislike is that the name of the rule on the logs appears
as something like normal_1xx starting from 100.
It would be nice to call them (and easier to read) what I've inserted in
the rule description.

Apart from that, Sygate's a very good firewall and I think I'll never
switch to other. As soon as you figure how to work with rules which btw are
very easy to create, you don't want anything else.

Well, a freeware alternative to SPF Pro with all the features and as safe
as SPF Pro could make me think, I guess... :)

A big Ahooooooooooooo. Ahoooooooowooooooo to all the fans and users of
Sygate out there.
 
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