Time for another firewall.
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From: John Corliss on 30 Jul 2010 11:04 Guy wrote: > John Corliss wrote: >> >> Kerio 2.1.5 is far too long in the tooth. Besides, I'm no longer >> able to remove .md5 entries from its list and don't feel like >> reinstalling the program. > > What is the size of the persfw.conf file in bytes? Currently it's 64kb. -- John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous remailers (for example, usenet4all.se, x-privat.org, dizum.com, tioat.net, frell.theremailer.net) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please.
From: John Corliss on 30 Jul 2010 11:06 FredW wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:10:39 -0700, John Corliss<q34wsk20(a)yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> Kerio 2.1.5 is far too long in the tooth. Besides, I'm no longer able to >> remove .md5 entries from its list and don't feel like reinstalling the >> program. Thus, I'm in the market for another firewall. > > > And your version of Windows may be? > > On Windows XP I used Kerio 2.1.5 combined with the Windows firewall. > As an alternative I used Online Armor Free. > > However, I now have Windows 7 Home Premiun 64-bit. > And that 64-bit part is a problem. > > For now I have settled on Windows 7 Firewall Control (64-bit version) > combined with the Windows Firewall. > http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.html Sorry FredW. I just posted my OS and version, XP Home SP3. -- John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous remailers (for example, usenet4all.se, x-privat.org, dizum.com, tioat.net, frell.theremailer.net) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please.
From: Man-wai Chang on 30 Jul 2010 11:46 > > He want's strong outbound protection/choice. Not a bad thing. > Protecting outbound connections??? What are talking about there.... -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34.1 ^ ^ 23:44:01 up 19 days 7:45 2 users load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: s|b on 30 Jul 2010 12:19 On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:10:39 -0700, John Corliss wrote: > Now on to my post: It's too late. You already opened a can of worms in your introduction... > This website rates various firewalls, free and otherwise: > > http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php#products-ratings > If you use a software firewall, which one (any one) do you prefer and > why? Which one imposes the least load on system resources? Etc. Based on matousec.com I installed Online Armor Free (4.0.0.45). It's using almost 12 MiB of RAM atm. Next to a firewall the free version also offers a Program Guard. Sometimes annoying, but it already saved me once from installing malware. <http://www.online-armor.com/downloads.php> (links are at the bottom) -- s|b
From: s|b on 30 Jul 2010 13:02
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:58:01 -0400, WaIIy <WaIIy@(nft).invalid> wrote: > I've always been pleased with Zone Alarm. Those phone home apps get > stopped in their tracks. I've dumped Free ZA years ago. Too bloated and it was causing problems in a home network. And then there was ZA blocking access to the Internet (not too long ago) after one of M$'s updates and YES, ZA was to blame for this. They admitted as much. -- s|b |