favorite firewall?

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

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... ;)

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.

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?

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...

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

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

@Scorp666:

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

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

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