Re: Personal Firewalls

johnj <johnj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This NG appears to be primarily professionals, but I'll ask anyway.

I've been asked to help support a set of computers at my church
(some new, some old) and get them connected onto a DSL line.
Unfortunately my experience has only been dial-up connection
and protected with an old version of ZoneAlarm on Win98SE & Win2K.

I need to install some firewall that's easy to use and maintain
as the support is all volunteers and not there during business
hours (except when there's a problem).

I have, in the past year, helped setup a new WinXP system for a
friend that came with Norton's security suite. What I saw
seemed a lot easier than my old version of ZoneAlarm because
it knows all the weird Windows services that pop up that I'm
not familiar with.

I've seen some negative comments about Norton/McAfee. But for
me are these Personal Firewalls a good choice? What other
options do I have?

TIA

You could install a computer running a standalone firewall with
multiple ethernet connections for the individual computers. But
this arrangement may be too complicated for your technical support.
One advantage is that one firewall would protect all the computers.

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