RE: Personal Firewalls

["Wild Weasel" <weasel_wild () hotmail com>]

ZoneAlarm is a good firewall, but has a few vulnerabilities. Recently while 
attending a firewall course I was introduced to another product: OUTPOST 
from Agnitum, I suggest its worth considering, its free unless you want to 
upgrade to PRO. If you would like to go more in-depth on logs how about 
SNORT.
All the best: Wild






> From: Rory <nazgul () csn ul ie>
> To: Craig Searle <craig.searle () sift com au>
> CC: 'Sridhar J' 
> <sridhar.jayaraman () wipro com>,security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Personal Firewalls
> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:25:18 +0100 (IST)
>
> Mmmmmmm i'm curious i'm use zone alarm on a computer at home and am quite
> happy with it. I ws just wondering what caused you to pick Sygate over
> zone alarm. I'm quite happy with zone alarm but if there is something that
> is better I wouldn't mind knowing why.
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Craig Searle wrote:
>
> > I have used all three in the past and found Sygate PRO to be the best by 
> far
> > (I haven't tried the free version, but I have been told it is quite good
> > too).
> >
> > The logging features will also help you to better understand what is 
> going
> > on while you are "connected".
> >
> > Having said that, ZoneAlarm is also very good- a close second to Sygate.
> >
> > Best of luck,
> >
> > Craig Searle
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sridhar J [mailto:sridhar.jayaraman () wipro com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2003 05:27 AM
> > To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Personal Firewalls
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a PIII 550 m/c running Win98. I need a personal firewall for it. 
> I am
> > looking at Zone Alarm, Sygate and Tiny Personal Firewall as my options.
> >
> > My intention is not only to protect my systems, but also to learn 
> something
> > about logs and analysing them. In light of this, which do you think 
> would be
> > ideal?
> >
> > No, I don't have a *nix system and don't intend to use it now.
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > Regards
> > Sridhar J
> > ----------
> > "What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence;The question 
> is,
> > what can you make people believe that you have done." --Sherlock Holmes 
> in
> > "A Study in Scarlet"
> >
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