Recommended Firewall for Win2k Pro

[Zirgon]

Hi,

I am running under Win2k Pro and want to run a seperate firewall to shield my DSL connection. There are many firewall for Win2k including: Conseal Firewall, Zonealarm, BlackICE, Freedom Internet Privacy, and Norton Internet Security. Which one do you think is the best for Win2k Pro, and why? Thanks.

Zir

 

[celeritas]

I wager that most people will say ZoneAlarm Pro, but there's one thing I'll need to be able to do before I'll jump on that bandwagon. Admittedly, I haven't used the problem hardly at all (I use AtGuard/BlackIce, and the combo works great for me), but it appears that there's no easy way to block/allow certain ports for certain addresses.

If someone knows a good way to do it, please share. TIA.

 

[WoundedWallet]

I have been using atguard for a long time and I don't think any of the new ones beats it.

Now I adding a router to help seal whatever is left open that I don't know.

 

[javathehut]

I like Norton Personal Firewall the best. BlackIce wasnt that great for webserving I remember. I havent tried the rest. Mcaffee's supposedly is horrible.

 

[jaywallen]

ZoneAlarm Pro does allow some control of ports in functional groupings, but the standard freebie ZoneAlarm doesn't.

 

[Zirgon]

Thanks.

I am using Linksys Router. I want to run a firewall program on top of that in case the router malfunction, or it cannot stop certain attacks.

Zir

 

[Ulfwald]

I have a double firewall running, Linksys Hardware Firewall, and then zone alarm Pro on each machine.

 

[xyyz]

ZoneAlarm is what I use on each of my machines... It was ranked as the second best product accorsing to Network World, the only other product that beat it out was Sybergen's Secure Firewall, and that because it allowed more control over ports and had a few other features.

Be careful, a common exploit is getting past alot of current Firewall Products (changing the name of the trojan to a trusted program iexplore.exe etc.).

Anyways both ZoneAlarm and Sybergen's products are free:

www.zonelabs.com
www.sybergen.com

 

[xyyz]

Here's that Network World article if you want to read it.

http://www.sygate.com/news/blueribbon.htm

 

[xyyz]

if that router malfunctions... you have the best firewall of all... a non-working connection 🙂

 

[Zirgon]

Thanks.

hahahhaha!!!! Good point about the fact that there is no Internet connection when the router crashes.

Zir