Re: Free Firewalls: ZoneAlarm vs Tiny Personal Firewall

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Date: 06/16/02 

Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 04:50:28 -0400

For most people, any of these will do fine. Most are not running a web
server, an ftp client and one or more other programs (such as RPG) where
everything has to play together, including with the firewall and Windoz.
Most are just running a browser.

If all I was doing was surfing, I'd use ZA. Needing configureability, Tiny
does the best job for me.

On 6/15/02 9:24 PM in article aegpck$8kc$1@news.cc.tut.fi, John Smith at
no.spam@no.spam.fi wrote :

>
> x y wrote:
>
>> I personally like Sygate
>
> knuj wrote:
>
>> Try Outpost from www.agnitum.com better than both of the ones you
>> tested.
>
> janus wrote:
>
>> TPF 2.0.15 is outdated. Try same tests with Kerio Firewall 2.1.4
>
> Thanks for the tips! As you already know from the earlier postings, after
> ZoneAlarm 2.6.362 I tried Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.4, Agnitum Outpost
> Firewall Free 1.0.1804.2212, and Sygate Personal Firewall 5.0 Build 1117.
>
> All the four firewall programs passed the three security tests
> (http://www.pcflank.com/,
> https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/basic_index.html,
> https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2), and that's enough for me. Maybe the
> programs are quite about as secure. But I can only use one, so maybe the
> criteria for selecting the program is with usability and user's
> preferences and needs.
>
> Tiny and Kerio have almost identical user interfaces. I don't like it when
> the logo of either of the programs appears before logging on Windows.
> Windows seems to start slower with Tiny or Kerio installed, but I haven't
> taken time, so I can't say about that - maybe I just imagine slower
> startup. Agnitum and Sygate have some similarities with their interfaces.
>
> I like the ZoneAlarm's User interface the most, but Sygate gives the most
> information about programs when I use them at the first time.
>
> But the programs don't give enough information about the packets to my
> needs. ZoneAlarm gives a warning from maybe almost every suspicious packet,
> and I like that. But, when wanted, I want to see all the fields of the
> suspicious/damaging TCP/UDP/ICMP packages/messages, like e.g. ICMP message
> types (0 - Echo Reply, 3 - Destination Unreachable, 4 - Source Quench, and
> so on).
>
> After trying all the programs, I still like ZoneAlarm and Kerio the most.
> But all the programs do their job, so it seems to me to be a matter of
> taste, which program you choose, though the firewall program should be
> updated regularly because of the new threats some people will invent.

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