Does anyone here use Sygate Personal Firewall?

[Sukhoi]

I just installed it last night after I read a good review about it. After looking through the logs, it seems like it's blocking some outbound traffic for no reason. Is this normal? Should I try Tiny Personal Firewall or ZoneAlarm instead?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I just installed it last night after I read a good review about it. After looking through the logs, it seems like it's blocking some outbound traffic for no reason. Is this normal? Should I try Tiny Personal Firewall or ZoneAlarm instead? >>



For no reason huh? Lets see some logs

 

[xyyz]

I read the reviews too... and because of them I dcided to test it on my clients systems. The thing was a real pain in the ass.

I did like the fact you have alot of control over what you want to do though.

If you want something simple and super-effective, get zonealarms's firewall.

 

[Dark]

Yeah I agree with XYZ. I tried Sygate because of a revew and went back to zonealarm.

 

[Sukhoi]

I think I may be going back to ZoneAlarm too..

I don't feel like posting the whole log file since it's huge, but here are some of the blocks that I don't understand why were blocked.

4 06/27/2001 00:05:01 Blocked TCP Outgoing statse.webtrendslive.com 63.88.212.82 80
53 06/27/2001 12:21:05 Blocked TCP Outgoing www.sandbox.com 12.47.193.5 80
61 06/27/2001 12:21:15 Blocked TCP Outgoing www.sandbox.com 12.47.193.5 80
135 06/27/2001 12:33:26 Blocked TCP Outgoing amch.questionmarket.com 64.14.62.228 80
136 06/27/2001 12:33:37 Blocked TCP Outgoing amch.questionmarket.com 64.14.62.228 80
196 06/27/2001 12:47:49 Blocked TCP Outgoing vote.mlb.com 208.197.4.57 80
197 06/27/2001 12:47:59 Blocked TCP Outgoing vote.mlb.com 208.197.4.57 80
246 06/27/2001 18:06:24 Blocked TCP Outgoing forums.anandtech.com 216.151.100.125 80
252 06/27/2001 18:07:18 Blocked TCP Outgoing forums.anandtech.com 216.151.100.125 80
332 06/27/2001 18:24:14 Blocked TCP Outgoing connect.247media.ads.link4ads.com 209.225.32.6 80
333 06/27/2001 18:24:29 Blocked TCP Outgoing connect.247media.ads.link4ads.com 209.225.32.6 80
522 06/27/2001 20:02:08 Blocked TCP Outgoing www.combatsim.com 199.45.65.97 80
526 06/27/2001 20:02:18 Blocked TCP Outgoing www.combatsim.com 199.45.65.97 80

BTW, I did have an older version of ZoneAlarm installed before trying Sygate Personal Firewall.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

zonealarm is better. sygate is freaking hard to use. but my dad like tiny better for some reason, he plays with this stuff all the time so it's up to you. i personally think zonealarm looks better.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Looks like a configuration is messed up. If you are more comfortable with it go back to zonealarm. But maybe read some of the docs for sygate. Learn how to use it and configure it while using zone alarm. I personally like more configuration settings than zone alarm offers (plus I dont use windows )

 

[Sukhoi]

Yeah, I gotta go through and see why these outgoing things are ocasionally blocked..it's odd. Thanks for the help. I may try Tiny before I try ZoneAlarm again...I've heard Tiny is real configurable too.