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  1. June 29th, 2001, 11:36 PM #1
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    Can anyone recommend any firewall software, freeware or not. I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks....kisses!
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  2. June 29th, 2001, 11:56 PM #2
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    Fire wall 1 from check point is the best in the market. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> www.checkpoint.com
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  3. June 30th, 2001, 04:00 AM #3
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    Originally posted by Scuba:
    <STRONG>Fire wall 1 from check point is the best in the market.</STRONG>
    ... next to a nice Debian firewall (www.debian.org) <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

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  4. June 30th, 2001, 07:40 AM #4
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    http://www.zonelabs.com/ It's free for personal use and does a pretty decent job as far as software based firewalls. If you are going to pay, I agree with Checkpoint, I use it as our corporate firewall.
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  5. July 2nd, 2001, 12:31 PM #5
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    blackice and norton personal firewall are very good, now if this is not for personal forget this. If for somehting else than personal you need a good proxy, if in windows then microsoft proxy.
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  6. July 2nd, 2001, 04:05 PM #6
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    thanks for your help, guys! i really appreciate your input. ;-) i am goin gwith checkpoint. it is awesome! take it easy, y'all...
    THANKS,Y'All! ;-)
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  7. July 3rd, 2001, 08:27 AM #7
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    <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> I recomend Black Ice Defender its set and forget software firewall
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  8. July 3rd, 2001, 09:09 AM #8
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    Read about the antics at www.grc.com before you consider going with BlackICE Defender--it is a FAILURE. ZoneAlarm ( www.zonelabs.com) is the only truly good firewall I have ever seen, and it suffers from its latest version being very buggy. If you can locate an older version of it I would consider using it over the latest version.

    Do NOT use BlackIce Defender. It is a failure and on their own website they state in small print that it is NOT a firewall, merely an "intrusion detection system".

    Additionally, I read an article in Maximum PC where they subjected six different firewalls to various tests including port scans, installation of Back Orifice, and DDOS attacks. BlackICE did actually pass all of these tests--so did ZoneAlarm. Norton Personal Firewall failed.

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  9. July 3rd, 2001, 11:39 AM #9
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    Black Ice Defender isn't a firewall, the company that produced it has finally come clean and have annoucned its a Intrusion Detection program. For one thing the dumb thing tells the prober that the ports blocked.

    ZoneAlarm or a good NAT is the way to go, as it will stealth the ports as well as block them. Most others don't stealth.
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