Can anyone recommend a decent Firewall?

Colin Wilson

> Can anyone recommend a decent firewall please?
> I'm using Kerio presently, but, after the free trial it's gone extremely
> basic!
> I have heard Zone alarm is good,

Personally, i'm happy enough with the free version of ZoneAlarm.

I did try Comodo, but the local network was unreachable despite
everything being seemingly in place to allow access.

Michael Chare

"That Man!" <> wrote in message
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> Hello ...........
>
> Can anyone recommend a decent firewall please?
>


Using a NAT router makes it difficult for anyone outside your local network
to contact your PC or any ontehr devices attached to your local network.


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Michael Chare

Steve B

"PeterC" <.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:54:45 -0000, Steve B wrote:
>
>> "That Man!" <> wrote in message
>> news:9_f7j.4198$.net...
>>> Hello ...........
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a decent firewall please?
>>>
>>> I'm using Kerio presently, but, after the free trial it's gone extremely
>>> basic!
>>>
>>> I have heard Zone alarm is good,
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian (Huddersfield)
>>>
>>
>> Comodo is supposed to be good. I'm sticking to an old fully working
>> Kerio
>> for now.
>
> Comodo is good, but needs a week or so to get sorted.
>
> Online Armor Free (I'm using it until Comodo is OK) stealths all ports and
> actually gives sensible alerts!
> --
> Peter.
> You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
> It's not rocket science, you know.

I just read some vey good things about Online Armor's security and resource
usage compared with Kerio, so I'm giving it a test run and it looks very
promising, the install routine goes searching for all your applications so
they can be approved in one hit; I like it so far.

The Natural Philosopher

Michael Chare wrote:
> "That Man!" <> wrote in message
> news:9_f7j.4198$.net...
>> Hello ...........
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a decent firewall please?
>>
>
>
> Using a NAT router makes it difficult for anyone outside your local
> network to contact your PC or any ontehr devices attached to your local
> network.
>
>
Indeed. With a NASTY rouiter costimng less than most firewl;l software,.
and not restriucting speed, its a sure fire bet.

NAT routers ion default settings stop anyone probing in, the same as any
firewall would. In fact they are full firewalls to start with, and need
to be adjusted to let ANYTHING in.


The only time I have had recourse to a discrete firewall was when using
a Belkin and setting it up top allow global access to a web server. I
could not set it up top allow just my IP address to access it in more
powerful ways, so I had to fit a firewall to the server.

Michael Chare

"The Natural Philosopher" <a@b.c> wrote in message
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> Michael Chare wrote:
>> "That Man!" <> wrote in message
>> news:9_f7j.4198$.net...
>>> Hello ...........
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a decent firewall please?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Using a NAT router makes it difficult for anyone outside your local
>> network to contact your PC or any ontehr devices attached to your local
>> network.
>>
>>
> Indeed. With a NASTY rouiter costimng less than most firewl;l software,.
> and not restriucting speed, its a sure fire bet.
>
> NAT routers ion default settings stop anyone probing in, the same as any
> firewall would. In fact they are full firewalls to start with, and need to
> be adjusted to let ANYTHING in.
>
>
> The only time I have had recourse to a discrete firewall was when using a
> Belkin and setting it up top allow global access to a web server. I could
> not set it up top allow just my IP address to access it in more powerful
> ways, so I had to fit a firewall to the server.
>

I have been able to configure my router so that it passes HTTP requests on
to a fixed address. What is a pity is that I can not configure the router
to validate a userid and password before the first request is passed on. Do
you happen to know if any of the normal ADSL broadband routers do this?


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Michael Chare

The Natural Philosopher

Michael Chare wrote:
> "The Natural Philosopher" <a@b.c> wrote in message
> news:.clara.net...
>> Michael Chare wrote:
>>> "That Man!" <> wrote in message
>>> news:9_f7j.4198$.net...
>>>> Hello ...........
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone recommend a decent firewall please?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Using a NAT router makes it difficult for anyone outside your local
>>> network to contact your PC or any ontehr devices attached to your
>>> local network.
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed. With a NASTY rouiter costimng less than most firewl;l
>> software,. and not restriucting speed, its a sure fire bet.
>>
>> NAT routers ion default settings stop anyone probing in, the same as
>> any firewall would. In fact they are full firewalls to start with, and
>> need to be adjusted to let ANYTHING in.
>>
>>
>> The only time I have had recourse to a discrete firewall was when
>> using a Belkin and setting it up top allow global access to a web
>> server. I could not set it up top allow just my IP address to access
>> it in more powerful ways, so I had to fit a firewall to the server.
>>
>
> I have been able to configure my router so that it passes HTTP requests
> on to a fixed address. What is a pity is that I can not configure the
> router to validate a userid and password before the first request is
> passed on. Do you happen to know if any of the normal ADSL broadband
> routers do this?
>

No, but its trivial to add that to the server itself. And as far as I
can see, no less secure.

If you are concerned about snooping passwords, use https.




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