The best FREE firewall??

[sterling]

HI

I read anandtech guide to firewalls. According to this site the most recommended firewalls by members are Sygate Personal Firewall and Kerio Personal Firewall. However I have read reviews provided by Anandtech that Zonealarm Personal Edition is better.

I have downloaded and used the Zonealarm pro version and find it bogs down my system and its very annoying to use.

What do you guys suggest?

 

[John]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=33&threadid=1375461

 

[Porter21]

zonealarm maybe?

 

[nweaver]

iptables

 

[statik213]

edit: nvm.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Please see Section F of the Consolidated Security Thread.

 

[Rottie]

I use ZoneAlarm Suite 6.0, I have no issue with it and also I like sysgate personal firewall on my laptop but it have some issues with AntiVir and Firefox. I can't find which to blame for problem..

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: sterling
HI

I read anandtech guide to firewalls. According to this site the most recommended firewalls by members are Sygate Personal Firewall and Kerio Personal Firewall. However I have read reviews provided by Anandtech that Zonealarm Personal Edition is better.

I have downloaded and used the Zonealarm pro version and find it bogs down my system and its very annoying to use.

What do you guys suggest?

Yes I hate how zonealarms bogs your system at startup, but then overall its very good, I swore by sygate for so long, then when my new rig came, it was giving me sooooooooooo many problems online, I uninstall and all went away. I prob will stick with Zone for a while.

 

[Cawchy87]

kerio

 

[XBoxLPU]

Sygate

 

[BW86]

Kerio v215

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: BW86
Kerio v215

i use 214 but close enough

4tw

don't like the new one (((((((((((((

 

[Shuxclams]

Originally posted by: nweaver
iptables

SHUX

 

[effee]

kaspersky imo...woops i thought it was about AVs. I think sygates a good one

 

[n0cmonkey]

Packetfilter > *

And it's as FREE as you can get really.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Your neighbour's wifi AP.

 

[sourceninja]

Any hardware (IE not running on your PC) firewall is my suggestion. A linksys firewall/router, IPCop, m0n0wall, redwall firewall, shorewall, wolverine, etc.

I personally use IPCop (but i'm actually working writting my own in my spare time based off gentoo), but most firewalls are the same. Just pick one, put it on a old p166-233 with 64megs of ram you can find/buy for less then 100.00 And have fun.

 

[imported_DarkPenguin]

Sygate. Although the version of Zone Alarm that came with the EZ antivir stuff road runner hands out is pretty painless, too.

 

[episodic]

Kerio 2.1.5 is the absolute best free firewall. The new Kerio version is nowhere near as good.. . .

 

[theAnimal]

What's wrong with Kerio 4? It just sits in the system tray and does its thing.

 

[episodic]

Kerio 4 is bloatware, takes over 7 megs of ram (vs 2 for 2.1.5), and has yet to fail any security test.

 

[Vertimus]

iptables

 

[Diasper]

Zonealarm I'd say - solid and simple.

Though I'm stick with version 5.5.094.000 as version 6 is still buggy (typical for a new release for zonealarm co)

If I couldn't use Zonealarm, I'd be using Kerio 2.15