Issue with the Sygate Personal Firewall

[Gusty987]

I just got a new notebook and am running Sygate Personal Firewall (free ed.) on it.

Anyway, I was running it on "Normal" but I was unable to reach some websites, including ebay.com.

I know have it on "allow all" and browsing, gaming, e-mail, everything works fine, but is my question is: is running in on "allow all" just like I have no firewall at all? In other words am I being protected at all when running at "allow all"?

Thanks.

 

[Gusty987]

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[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Gusty987
I just got a new notebook and am running Sygate Personal Firewall (free ed.) on it.

Anyway, I was running it on "Normal" but I was unable to reach some websites, including ebay.com.

I know have it on "allow all" and browsing, gaming, e-mail, everything works fine, but is my question is: is running in on "allow all" just like I have no firewall at all? In other words am I being protected at all when running at "allow all"?

Thanks.

AFAIK allow all is the same as no protection. You can test it from within the firewall.
Set it to allow all and then run the built in test or go to dslreports.com and run one of their tests.

 

[leechwife]

Go to Options -> Security and uncheck "Enable Stealth Browsing". When you have it enabled, it turns off referer logging, and that's what causes some sites not to work.