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05-04-2007, 09:51 AM
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I want a Plaid crayon
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Firewall
Anyone know of a good free firewall other then zone alarm? I have been using zone alarm for a long time but its starting to get on my nerves. Randomly crashing or causing lag spikes while gaming online and that sort of thing. a fresh reinstall of it didnt help so i figure its about time to try something new. Any suggestions would be very helpful.
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05-04-2007, 02:16 PM
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Thor
Location: 33:08:12N 117:10:23W
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If you have an old, spare, computer not doing anything, there are a plethora of turnkey solutions available (most are free for home use) that create a hardware firewall:
monowall IPCop Redwall and what I use in my home and offices all over the world: Astaro
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05-04-2007, 04:24 PM
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Devils Cabana Boy
Location: Central Coast CA
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m0n0wall is great, but you still should have a software firewall as well. window's xp's firewall is more then sufficient with a hardware firewall.
i do recommend m0n0wall as your hardware firewall, i use it at home.
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05-04-2007, 06:03 PM
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Adequate
Location: In my angry-dome.
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Comodo firewall is outstanding, and free. Stable, pretty, and so far it tests the security pants off everyone else. (Windows-centric, of course) It will ask for more guidance than others during training, but only because it's strict; they chose to be leak-proof vs. avoiding support calls.
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05-05-2007, 07:20 AM
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I want a Plaid crayon
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I have a router that works as a crappy firewall as well but i really want a software firewall. I dont exactly trust linksys to do anything right. Some programs i just want to block on my own. I will check out comodo and outpost. thanks for the help. =)
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05-05-2007, 07:30 AM
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Squid hat!
Location: A Few Miles Away From Halx
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2nd for Comodo! It works extremely well, and once you get past the initial deluge of Allow/Deny (that comes with every firewall) it pretty much leaves you alone and just works.
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05-05-2007, 08:03 AM
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Devils Cabana Boy
Location: Central Coast CA
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actually, linksys will do a nice job unless some one is actively attacking you. but you still want a software firewall in case a computer inside your network gets infected.
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05-07-2007, 04:02 AM
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I want a Plaid crayon
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comodo seems to be working great =) And yeah linksys works great... when its working right. That router crashes alot it randomly just decides to block everything or allow everything through untill i reboot it. luckly linksys is right on top of things and hasnt put out a firmware update for it in the last year and a half.
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