favorite firewall?

[Ryan Nyquist]

whats your favorite firewall? I don't really have one. I just use Norton Personal Firewall 2002 for its network flexibility (it is the only one that I found that works with my internet with a couple of changes). how about you?

[str34m3r]

How can you have 44 posts and not know that this question has been asked dozens of times? I haven't been here very long myself, and I don't know how many posts I have right now, but it's somewhere in that range, and I know I've at least seen it at least ten times. And from searching the forums, I can tell it's been asked again and again. If you want to know, read those. If you're just trying to start a discussion, you'd probably be better off making a post about a particular feature that Norton has and asking for comments. That's a lot more likely to get discussion rather than flames. Just a suggestion.

As an example... I use Agnitum Outpost (I never can spell that right) because of the control it allows. Not only do I have control over what addresses I send traffic to, I can specify protocols, ports, ICMP types, etc. I honestly don't know if there's another that provides that much control, but thats one of my favorite features. It would be useful to know if any of the other firewalls provide that much control of traffic. It's something of a religious war around here, so I'll probably just stick with what I have and be happy.

[Scorp666]

I use free stuff, I am a poor cheap bastard...

TPF + ZoneAlarm and a few other things I can't disclose without the approval of my lawyers :D

[cheesegoduk]

I use Zonealarm pro 3.0 It is very powerful and has stopped a lot of hack attacks, which is needed when you run kaaza overnight

[Remote_Access]

Agnitium Outpost (http://www.agnitum.com/)

FREE! Outpost Firewall is the most feature-packed Personal Firewall for Windows in the world. It gives peace of mind from any threats by Cookies, Ads, E-mail viruses, Backdoors, Spyware, Crackers, Adware and virtually every other Internet danger. This is the first firewall that supports plug-ins so its capabilities can easily be extended. Outpost supports all the latest security techniques and features such as: Full Stealth Mode, Anti-Leak, and MD5 Authentication. Sample plug-ins (http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/plugins.html) are included to show how this revolutionary technology can easily be employed for such tasks as Intrusion Detection, Advertisement Blocking, Content Filtering, E-mail Guard and Privacy Control.


Need I say more?

Remote_Access

[draziw]

Gauntlet - though mostly before NAI got a hold of the thing.

But I'm assuming that answers a question that you weren't really asking...

[cybermagellan]

CISCO PIX if you can hack a PIX then the world is yours

[JRoc]

I use two good firewalls and the one I made.

[Scorp666]

Where can I get the one you made? :D

[The Old Man]

Norton until 2002, then ZaPro until i had to reload my 'puter and it wanted all the purchase info from almost a year ago which of course i don't have so it wouldn't reload or update and there were no carbon-based lifeforms at ZoneAlarm to write back with any assistance... Anyway, now it's gauntlet. :D

[draziw]

Originally posted here (http://www.AntiOnline.com/showthread.php?threadid=#post) by cybermagellan
CISCO PIX if you can hack a PIX then the world is yours

Many people already have... :D

[cwk9]

I'm not a big ZA fan, I use sygate.

[System_Overload]

I have 4 McAfee, Norton, ZoneAlarm, and Sygate..... Nothing and no one gets into my system....


System_0verload

[Ryan Nyquist]

I did not know that this has been posted so many times before because I usually post in AntiVirus Discussions. this is only my third (or fourth) time I have been to this forum.

[Ryan Nyquist]

Agnitum Outpost sounds pretty good. where can I find this?

[KorpDeath]

www.agnitum.com

[kadeng]

I was to late. Korp lol

[xmaddness]

I recently switched to outpost.. Dam if that thing isn't picky. lol But I guess thats a good thing. Its just gunna take me a bit to set up all the permissions correctly. But for a free firewall, that thing is power packed.

[prodikal]

sygate and zone alarm

[StephC]

The best I think is Personnal Tiny Firewall and ZoneAlarm.
Norton Firewall is vulnerable(by a remote crash;I mean portscan etc...).

[Scorp666]

Steph, can you post a link to where you found that Norton Firewall was sensible to a remote crash? I would like to see it for myself if possible :D

[Ganjica]

Why don't you just try it? Not hard to get Norton to crash, it's a little more tricky to get it to crash open... ;)

[monoton]

I'm using Fli4L, http://www.fli4l.de/e_index.htm
that means I use an old 486 as Router and Firewall for
my Windows pc.
Unfortunately, the device is broken at the moment and so
I have to use the desktop firewall from Sygate.

[Scorp666]

Glad yo have you aboard :) Don't worry about the sentences, I can't type English either and my grammar is highly deficient...

That 486 firewall seems interesting! Did it do a good job while your machine worked?

[monoton]

Thank you for welcoming me :)

I configured the firewall using the documentation and the faq of the developers websites.
It ran very stably on my mashine until the old power supply blew :mad:

I run additionaly the Sygate firewall on my windows pc and there were never any
messages of attacking.

The logfile of the fli4l showed me sometimes some attacking,
I did a research on it and found out that this comes from other peoples using the same lan
(we are accessing the internet using a hub) when they start their icq clients or anything.

I could not collect more experiences at this time because I have got my flatrate now just for 3 days
and the whole town is connected to the cable modem provider like a big lan because we
get always the same IP-Adress, only the adress of our standardgateway changes if we
make a new connection.

Before I got the flatrate I was using a normal dial up modem and I used the same software
and the same router. The fli4l presented me often reports of people who tried to scan
my ports but the Sygate firewall did not recognize anything.

So I can say that fli4l catched up more or less all the attacks, I think.

I hope you did understand what I'm trying to tell...

[prana]

use Zone Alarm, Norton, Mcafee ( ok ) I use Zone Alarm, another few tools. you need to ask God to fix it! :)

[Scorp666]

Roger monoton!

I now need to dig my old comp out of the wardrobe and give it a go :)

This place is extra cool for the new stuff you learn everyday and the jokes and script kiddies posts :D

[monoton]

@Scorp666:

Just give it a try, I hope it will work fine for you :)

[alittlebitnumb]

I use BlackICE defender, which is not a firewall, really....

[blackmask]

Zone Alarm is my choice.It's free....:-) The same thread had been posted severel times in AO.So have a search.

[ZeroOne]

The newest firewall thread I recall is here:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=223509
I also tried to find a message where I listed some of the previous firewall threads but failed.

[Ryan Nyquist]

I just had to get rid of ZoneAlarm. cause once again, it doesn't configure to my internet. I'mm not gonna get a firewall. none configure to my internet. i'll just get an anti-trojan program. does Tauscan detect trojans from internet downloads?

[Rewandythal]

for *****s sake, how many more times, don't you people know how to search the forums for old threads before starting a new one?

Agnitum outpost Pro:
www.agnitum.com

or:
set up a linux box as a hardware firewall using iptables (or ipchains if older kernel)

[ItalWHOP]

My linksys router.....


Ran BlackICE behind it and found no attempts of access or anything where coming to my system.

[bucket]

I use Symantec's My Personal Firewall (2001). I got it for $9.99 in a sale at an office supply house. This almost was free. ;)


:wow:

[KissCool]

I think ZoneAlarme and Outpost are the best choice: good and free, it's my favorite equation

:)

[dj nica]

well i personally believe that i it ain't broke don't fix it and so far agnitum outpost ain't broke. so i'll stick with what i got cuz its working fine for me.

the sentinel

[vlady99]

http://www.geocities.com/nigga765/

[valhallen]

please someone else neg vlady!!!
his posts are nothing short of non-sense, his web-site is a joke, and he is just annoying the hell outta me with these complete and utter rubbish posts!!!
They are nothing short of spam!
Why on earth do you think anyone would be intrested in reading about you???
ON your page you even discribe AO as 'a good place for hacking and viruses'
for a start the plural of virus is virii & secondly AO is not a good polace for virii and hacking its a good place to learn how to prevent them!!!



v_Ln

my most sincere thanx to who-ever neg'd vlady and got him banned :)
i owe you one