wich is the best software firewall ???

A test that finds which firewall match to you will be great, don't you think???

Like an app that would runa nd say you have all of "these" security wholes, you really shoudl use "this" as your firewall? Yeah that would be a cool idea. Save people from paying for top end stuff when they don't need it, and a sales person just cons them into it.

Exactly...

I would have to say that Zone alarm is the best one that i have seen so far

ii-monk --> you any good at programming? Hehhe, maybe we should get together and make an app that does that and make billions. That is if we got lucky and Bill Gates bought us out ;-)

Daedalus2100 --> I would have to agree, if you are not going to setup your own router with firewall software built in (Like Coyote, Seawall, etc). As I said before I find it easy to use once you learn a little code... then again you have to know some code to run any *nix OS =) Plus I also like doing that because of how secure *nix types of systems are.

I was actually just talking to a friend over this past week about some problems they had. My friend had just setup Zone Alarms on his Windows XP Pro machine, which is also the router/gateway for his Internet to LAN. He had all types of problems, couldn't get his internal network to be able to access the Internet, actually he pretty much froze his XP machine from both the Internet and LAN. I laughed! Because I didn't know anything about how to setup IP chains and such whenever I setup my Coyote box, I will admit I lost the ability to do FTP and file sharing over chat clients, but my Internet worked and I could connect my LAN to the Internet and such. Then after finally taking the time to read through the website and learn a few things, I had a fully working router that would allow FTP, XP Remote Desktop, File Sharing with AIM and MSN, everything I needed to flow between my LAN and the Internet.

So you could kind of say that I like means that work over means that force you to sit and learn things right then and there or nothing works. Because my friend hasn't been the only person I've known who is a "user" that has had problems setting up Zone Alarms or anything of the sort.

Yeah i know some.

Important note: The founder of M$ was William Gates not Bill Gates.

I use Norton Personal Firewall it's an very good 1, and it's so easy to download (oops, illigall:D)

After reading through this I , at the time, had zone alarm. I checked out outpost and because I am broke grabbed the free version and it is infinetely better than zone alarm. It allows more control and a better interface. The logs are a lot clearer, also. I know this topic has been covered before but it is good to keep updated on the important stuff-thanks :D

i've used agnitum outpost (free)... since i'm using linux now i'm using iptables ;-)

btw. hi everybody, this's my first posting

As for windows firewalls:

I recommend using more than one. Some are better for some things than others. And since there are different approaches to security by firewalls using more than one increases your secutiry. Personally I use VisNetic and ZoneAlarm (and I'm considering adding Sygate). Between them I think I have a high level of intrusion protection.