Agnitum firewall

hi

i have agnitum firewall and i just wounder if it blocks a hacker for the time you set and then let him in, i dont think it does but you never can be sure.

Anyone know?

i dont really undeerstand can u be a bit more specific and maybe i could help "for the time u set could u be a little more specific there " and possibily i might be able to help u plz more details

in options you can set the time for how long the intruder will be blocker

options-plugins setup-attack detection-settings----block intruders

the part where it says block all traffic for (10) min`s uncheck it that should fix it

i just dl a copy of anitum's firewall and like it alot better then ZA(which I think sux!) I haven't tried black Ice defender yet but that's on the horizon...

i kinda like agnitum moore that zone alarm too, if you ever try black ice, tell me how it is and if its good and soo on. Wanna have the best firewall there is you know.


thanks :)

In my opinion agnitum is better than ZA or black ice.

Yeah, I didn't like blackice. The only good feature about it is that it gives you stats and graphs, they look nice but are useless and take up system resources. Plus blackice has a steeper learning curve, it won't block all your ports unless you know how to use it correctly. And what I hate most is that blackice has a filter that is made to cheat the grc.com shields up tests. When I ran a java test and port scans, they both shows my 139 open. Blackice just doesn't offer the bang for the buck, zone alarm slowed down my computer considerably, and outpost, well, I don't know how they did it, but on my p133 with 32 megs of ram, it doesn't in any way lag my system, and I've tried different tests, it just doesn't. And as for the intruder setting, no point in using it unless the person is trying to attack you repeatedly, most likely the person will see you are protected or think you are offline and leave you alone.

it is supposed to detect if someone is trying to break into your comp. what that option does it block all communication with that ip address so that after they make a set number of atempts to get in it will just block everything else so they can't find some way around the firewall. after a time it will unblock the ip cuz not everyone has static ip's and you may want to be able to communicate with that ip later. hope that answers your question.

I've tried ZA, Agnitum, and TPF. IMO, Agnitum is the best. :)

I gusse i'll go get Agnitum then i've been using ZA for awhile and i'm pretty satisfied with it it has never slowed me down.

ive tried ZA PRO. AGNITUM,SYGATE,PC VIPER, BLACKICE,MACAFFE, NORTANS, NORMANS,PC CILLIAN,E TRUST,VISNETIC.and i testted the very well

and ive come to the conclusion that agnitum and zone alarm pro are the best

if anyone here likes blackice then u dont know anything about firewalls
it blocks about 5 ports.it tells u some bull sh*t info abot attacks.i would'ny even class it as a firewall, more like a program with pritty little icons that flash pritty colors.

compared to other firewalls its got not even 1/4 of the features.
its a cheap cop out basicaly.

the makers of the famous leak test which im sure you've heard of did a test on all the top firewalls and when the tested balckice the said that it was no good and i quote

'Black ice leaks like a sive'

so i would'nt suggest black ice,try agnitum or zone alarm

My first firewall was zonealarm...and if I were to still be using it today I wouldn't have a clue how to operate a firewall. I got sick of it crashing on me every few minutes and asking me if I wanted to block yahoo every time I tried to log on, so I switched to outpost. Not only has it proven to be better for security, but i've also been able to learn more about firewalls through using that one then I ever have through reading tutorials and such.

i use agnitum my self and i recon it does provide more protection, i had no problems with za myself and i still like it but im gonna stick with agnitum :D

Back to the first question, if you set a time limit for an intruder's ip, that ip will not be able to try to communicate with any port on your computer for that period of time.

scorp, that's right as I understand it. I have my firewall set to block for 600 seconds. That's 10 minutes, which is plenty of time. Nobody is going to hang around that long trying to get in.

I had agnitum but for some reason it wouldn't work with my network. I checked with agnitum forums and their next version will be compatible. Don't remember the reason. Believe it or not, the folks at Agnitum Outpost forums pointed me to Sygate, which I'm using.

The latest version of agnitum will be going to beta testing any day. I'm looking forward to trying it when it's released after beta.