Re: Time to ditch Sygate firewall?

From: louise (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/22/05

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    In article <ajkOe.23988$Hx4.12783@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
    a.nony.mous@example.invalid says...
    > Margaret Wilson wrote:
    >
    > > Interesting choice in AV software. I chose NOD32 as well! I've
    > > been very pleased with it. Much better than NAV in my opinion. I
    > > did the firewall eval thing quite a while ago, and my choice is
    > > Black ICE. I know some people say it's not a "real" firewall
    > > because it doesn't scan outgoing traffic. Well, if those people
    > > actually read the manual, they'd know there's a switch you can use
    > > in firewall.ini to have it scan outgoing traffic.
    >
    > If you can edit a text file to turn it on, malware can edit the text
    > file to turn it off. (Never used BlackIce for this reason.)
    >
    > > Personally, I prefer to start with a known-clean system and then
    > > simply scan incoming traffic. My network sits behind a NAT
    > > firewall, however, so that provides some additional protection
    > > (again, not against outgoing traffic). Anyway, before I found
    > > BlackICE, my fav was Tiny Firewall, which I believe became Kerio,
    > > which I understand is now no longer being updated IIRC.....
    >
    > Kerio is alive and well. And a very good firewall. Free for home use.
    > Yes, it monitors both inbound and outbound traffic.
    > http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
    >
    >
    I just looked at the Kerio site and at the comparison chart between
    the paid and free version.
     
    http://www.kerio.com/kpf_comparison_version.html

    I note that the free version does not offer script blocking along
    with some other things I'm not knowledgeable enough to asses.

    I'm running Nod32 for my AV and I have a Linksys NAT router. Win
    XP Pro with MS firewall turned off.

    Is script blocking necessary?

    TIA

    Louise

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