MxxCon Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 i'm so sick of these threads poping up every single week. so here's the one and only thread you should need untill the end of your life. moderator can modify poll entries to update. BEST FIREWALL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Borbus Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Zonelalarm Pro Does anybody know why it always "phones home"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SimplyPotatoes Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 ya dont have it autoupdate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 alpoinacan Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Hi, YES, it is checking for updates. You can turn this off if you like and do a manual update. As far as firewalls go, if you like to fiddle with every setting, try out Outpost. If you want to set and forget, Zone Alarm Pro. If you are really paranoid, try Kerio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 uniacidz Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Zonelalarm ProDoes anybody know why it always "phones home"? Me too. Maybe you have it to set to Auto check for updates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Spyder Veteran Posted November 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted November 13, 2003 merged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Gromvar Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 I use Kerio 2.1.5. I like it because it's small and very customizable. It doesn't have flashy graphics or aqua gui ,but I don't need that. It does it's job and sits in the background like it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Akuma-San Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Switched to Sygate personal 5.5 lastweek from Kerio 2.1.5 and damn what a mistake :angry: Back using Kerio 2.1.5 again... Sygate was sorta nice but a resource hog and seemed go apesh*t easily. Long live Kerio 2.1.5 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Abracanabra Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 PERSONALY, I way prefer Agnitum Outost Firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 midway40 Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Outpost Pro 2.0 here. I tried ZA a couple of times, the last time for some reason it messed up my sound card! I had to reinstall it. Have no idea what that was about! :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DreamweaverN Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 I have router based firewall but if I used a software one it would be Outpost as it is suppose to be the best there is (tests have shown this). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Samoa Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Kerio PF. (Y) ZoneAlarm sucks, IMO. (N) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Godzilla Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 LMAO, zone alarm has most votes :laugh: Kerio does the best job for me, zone alarm is just pathetic, more like a UI wall :blink: And isnt kerio the new tiny or someshiz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Samoa Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 LMAO, zone alarm has most votes :laugh: Kerio does the best job for me, zone alarm is just pathetic, more like a UI wall :blink: And isnt kerio the new tiny or someshiz? Tiny PF became Kerio PF... but Tiny as a company still exists? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dewy Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 any *nix solution :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PseudoRandomDragon Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 LMAO, zone alarm has most votes :laugh: Kerio does the best job for me, zone alarm is just pathetic, more like a UI wall :blink: And isnt kerio the new tiny or someshiz? You say ZA is pathetic.... but it has the most votes. Hmmm, prehapse you are wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tech_8356 Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 NIS04 coupled with ZA Pro for me :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 cbosdell Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 defenatily kerio. I tried zone alarm once and it just popped up in my face with this big ad with some fancy ui that i dont want or need. Kerio does the job and only uses about 5 megs ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 davegod75 Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 smoothwall (linux) is way better than all these www.smoothwall.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hidea Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 Outpost Firewall PRO... great firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 redFX Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 Outpost firewall is THE best firewall software ou there. It catches everything and even things other firewalls don't catch. I've tried them all, believe me, and outpost was the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 freakyfriday Posted November 16, 2003 Share Posted November 16, 2003 i use the Windows XP built-in firewall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 prabha_ind Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 ZA Pro 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Lefhark Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 I use Outpost Firewall Pro 2.0. like others said, it's the most secure software based firewall available right now, when propperly configured, that is. Keeps all my ports stealthed and monitors progs as well as the *.dll's used by them. On average it uses just 5mb of ram, which is the lowest ram consumption i've seen so far. It has it's quirks too, though. One of the major ones is, that it's impossible to limit the logsize. If you use programs which create a lot of traffic, your log's size will increase to 500mb over the months running Outpost. Thats easily fixed by renaming op_data.dll to lets say op_data.dll.bak, which will prevent outpost from adding the monitored traffic to the log database. Number two would be Sygate Firewall Pro 5.5. Has it's probs with DNS. Tho DNS is allowed at its settings, at an auto reconnect to the net, resolving hostnames isnt possible any more all of a sudden. This can be solved by manually creating a rule, which allows outbound connections from port 53. Apart from that its just as good as Outpost besides one thing - it uses more ram. Number 3 on my list is ZoneAlarm 4.5 Pro. It's great for beginners. almost everything is preconfigured or very easy to set up. Creating additional rules is a bit limited, but addons like the prevention personal data leakage thru html forms and cookies make up for it. Popup blocking is a nice addon too, but Outpost does this as well, and ad blocking on top of that. The major issue i had with this otherwise nice tool is, that over a few days of being connected to the net, creating a lot of traffic, Zone Pro started to screw up, consuming more and more ram (innitially 25mb already, adding all its processes together) and started to give me ping timeouts on irc, or disconnecting me from servers. my guess is, that the monitored data keeps piling up until Zone cant handle it any more. Still an OK tool for people who want a firewall which doesnt leave them puzzled on how to use it. -Lef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rivers Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 cant be bothered to read all 7 pages... but just wondering how many idiots have ticked other for tiny firewall not knowing that kerio is the updated new named version?? I demand a recount on the other bit cos I cant believe that there are that many ppl that think zonealarm is actually any good lol. :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PseudoRandomDragon Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 "I demand a recount" :rolleyes: You are just going to have to accept the fact that ZoneAlarm is a good firewall, the same goes for Norton and Kerio. Heck, PCMag rated firewalls and Norton/ZAP came out on top. ZAP is good, deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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i'm so sick of these threads poping up every single week. so here's the one and only thread you should need untill the end of your life. moderator can modify poll entries to update.
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