Re: choosing personal firewall ?

From: Lance Delacroix (lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm)
Date: 04/18/02 

From: Lance Delacroix <lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:30:06 +0300

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:10:06 +0200, "Emanuele Blanco"
<manubNOSPAM@libero.it> wrote:

>"Eirik Seim" <eirik@mi.uib.no> ha scritto nel messaggio
>news:slrnabtihr.a7j.eirik@kain.mi.uib.no...
>
>> Yeah, the same mental problems as everyone else who's been in this
>business
>> for a while. Dealing with people who sees some firewall advertisement, or
>> perhaps have seen the movie 'Swordfish', and think every
>internet-connected
>> computer needs a firewall. I'll let you in on a little secret: They
>don't.
>
>[...]
>
>I want to reply here to many posts I read before. Of course I'm not an
>expert of Network Security, but I understand something. Sure Wolfgang is an
>expert, but I need a firewall. I've a DSL connection and I have my computer
>turned on for about 12 h a day. I know what you mean about services, but
>sometimes people ping flood me etc ... and I'm not really glad of leaving my
>ports visible to others. Perhaps I don't need it, but I want it :)
>

There you go, bud, you *want* it. That renders this tedious argument
moot, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Now, as to Kerio and Tiny, Kerio is the successor to the OLD Tiny,
which was a good program. Kerio is the same program with some bug
fixes and improvements. It seems to be generally agreed that Kerio is
a useful, reliable personal firewall.

The NEW Tiny, which is what you get if you download Tiny now, is more
of an unknown than the OLDTiny/NowKerio. Download Kerio and set it
up. You'll see that it comes with a few standard rules, which are
fine to get you started. Most of what you need to add will be fairly
obvious, but you should also read Robert Graham's "Firewall Forensics"
handbook www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html if you need to
brush up on your basic knowledge of packet protocols.
After you fool around Kerios for a day or two, get back to the group
with any questions. You can learn more by charging into it than by
being guided every step of the way.

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