Re: Win32 firewall

From: Shaolin Tiger (shaolin@shaolin-tiger.com)
Date: 07/31/02 

From: "Shaolin Tiger" <shaolin@shaolin-tiger.com>
To: "Remington Winters" <fyreguy@rivetgeek.com>, <muso.ken@hushmail.com>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:22:53 +0100

For Win32 I most highly recommend Tiny now known as Kerio personal firewall
and available at:

My favourite of all-time was Conseal as it worked it much the same way as
IPChains.

Saying that TPF/Kerio is very configurable and stateful.

http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_download.html

There is also a discussion on such products here:

http://www.security-forums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=186

And a recent review of the 'Top 6' software firewalls (high end) here:

http://www.security-forums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=752

HTH

Shaolin

Tommaso Magnani <tmagna@tin.it> dropped ballbearings on his keyboard
and randomly produced :
 
:: try sygate spf
::
:: www.sygate.com
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:: ----- Original Message -----
:: From: "Remington Winters" <fyreguy@rivetgeek.com>
:: To: <muso.ken@hushmail.com>; <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
:: Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 6:55 PM
:: Subject: Re: Win32 firewall
::
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::: With the requirements you listed, that doesnt leave much on the
::: windows platform. I can only suggest Tiny Personal Firewall. It
::: is along the same lines as Zonealarm but with more manual features
::: and full stateful inspection.
:::
::: ----- Original Message -----
::: From: <muso.ken@hushmail.com>
::: To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
::: Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 11:20 PM
::: Subject: Win32 firewall
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:::
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:::: Does anyone know of any "firewall" application that will run on a
:::: Win32
::: box? Win2k, WinNT, XP, are fine but I am more preferring if it will
::: work on Win9x/ME systems as well.
::::
:::: Specifically, what I'm looking for is something that would work
:::: like
::: ipchains/iptables, and should be light-weight (would be around
::: 1.44Mb , no installers if possible), Open Source (if there are
::: any), and non-commercial product.
::::
:::: No pointers to ZoneAlarm, BlackICE, etc. please.
::::
:::: Thanks
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