FW: [Full-disclosure] Re: Re: PC Firewall Choices (an alternative choice)
- From: William DeRieux <williamderieux@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:25:41 -0500
From: William DeRieux [mailto:WilliamDeRieux@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:24 PM
To: 'Nancy Kramer'
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Re: Re: PC Firewall Choices (an alternative
choice)
You could try, 8signs firewall (it is designed with servers in mind, but
works for home desktops just as well) 8Sings firewall, not free though, has
a wizard that walks you through creating a ruleset Asking you what servies
you want to run, webserver, emailserver, etc, etc, even things that aren't
servers. Plus it is really easy to use, if you inititally tell it to block
all traffic, unless there is a rule for that particular traffic, no packets
or data That don’t have a corresponding rule will not be able to get
throught; You can right-click on that traffic in the programs log window and
tell it To make a ruleset for the specific traffic, and choose to block or
accepts incoming/outgoing connections or both (as simple as point & click),
I havent had any trouble with it, and have been running it for about half of
a year.
It has TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, RARP, & Mac Address Rules - with different
configuration for each network adapter, both ethernet & wireless. It also
has a configuration wizard for each adapter. And has the following other
options *SYN Flood Protection *Port Scan Protection *and Automatic & Manual
Ban List (for flooding, port scanning, etc) It even has a built-in learning
mode
You can look them up here: http://www.consealfirewall.com/
William (*note I am not trying to ADVERTISE THIS PRODUCT, I AM just trying
to help give someone an alternative, they may not have known about*) FC,
ROCKS!
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[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nancy Kramer
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:30 PM
To: Stan Bubrouski; full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Re: PC Firewall Choices
I admit I know nothing about firewalls but with ZA I have had to shut it
down sometimes to go onto the internet. I have no idea why. I just can't
get on and when I shut it down I can.
Never had the problem with Kaspersky. I do know that configuring a
firewall right takes some knowledge and I know I don't know how to do that
and ZA did not come with instructions telling me that, but Kaspersky was
intuitive. If just popped up and asked if you want to let a certain
application get on the internet and you answer yes or no and then it
remembers. I think someone who did not even know what a firewall is could
use it on their computer without problems like a typical end user. That
impresses me. With the proliferation of broadband I think the typical home
user should have a software firewall if they have broadband. Naturally a
friend of mine had Windows XP and Norton Firewall and his machine on
broadband got hacked anyway. But that is consumer Norton and that is
another story which would be off topic to this subject.
Regards,
Nancy Kramer
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