who's switched from Zonealarm to Tiny firewall?

[xyyz]

dunno if this is more a software or networking topic...

but anyone do what I did and swap from ZA to TF? anyone have any problems later on?

 

[n0cmonkey]

I did temporarily. I liked the control I could have with TPF over the simplicity of ZA.

 

[Phatest]

I did the switch since i have set up a lan here. tiny is a much better package (i think) to have on the NAT/firewall. at least until i get my new box to move PDC to it then it will prolly be a going to slackware.
I do miss having zone on the box i am using tho. just being able to shut IE off from the net was worth.

 

[me19562]

I never liked ZA because of the simplicity as n0cmonkey said, TPF have a lot of more control, sometimes too much but thats the idea.
Personaly i'm using Norton Personal Firewall 2002 + the SMC Barricade. U can setup Norton PF to work like TPF or in some kinda of automatic mode
but that depend in what u want.

 

[Sukhoi]

I'm running Tiny too. But I'm behind an RT314, so it's kind of useless. 🙂

 

[y2kc]

I would love to try TPF but it gives me a bluescreen after rebooting in XP and I've been unable to figure out why. (dual cpus' maybe?). I really don't like ZA, but it seems to be the lesser of evils as far as software firewall solutioins go (that'll work on my system).

 

[xyyz]

<< I'm running Tiny too. But I'm behind an RT314, so it's kind of useless. 🙂 >>



hey nothing is useless per-say... what if someone was to spoof an internal network address... then what hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

 

[Damascus]

I switched from ZA to TPF. I like both, but ZA sometimes crashes, and under Win98
it would sometimes crash and force a reboot whenever I fiddled with Command
prompts.

 

[me19562]

I'm running Tiny too. But I'm behind an RT314, so it's kind of useless
That's not true as xyyz said if someone was to spoof an internal network address and if u have ur PC in the DMZ at least
u have sometime to protect u

 

[GigaCluster]

<< I'm running Tiny too. But I'm behind an RT314, so it's kind of useless. 🙂 >>


Precisely the same situation here.
I don't have a DMZ machine configured.

This Christmas I got enough money to afford a Cisco 806 Router, though, at the Cisco Networking Academy discount price. 😀

Merry Christmas, all!

 

[Dooling37]

I had not heard of Tiny, but am considering DLing it, although I did notice this one negative review from download.com that worries me (I am very paranoid when it comes to spyware/privacy issues):

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I didn't find it all that difficult to setup and running but I also question the spyware/adware angle. Did anyone else notice the constant in/out connection TPF establishes for itself and that you can't remove it. I blocked it and it just came right back with a new connection that once again had to be blocked. It ignored my settings and kept right on reconnecting AND TRANSMITTING OVER HALF A MEG OFF MY COMPUTER! I highly recommend you PASS ON THIS ONE!!!!!!!!

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/...?pn=1&lb=2&ob=0&tag=st.dl.10105.top.6313778-1
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anyone else notice anything like this? Since it is the only review mentioning this that I noticed, I am assuming it is bogus, but would like to be assured before I go ahead and give it a try...

Thanks for info!

 

[Sukhoi]

I know it's not totally useless, but it doesn't do much most of the time. It is nice to know when different programs on my computer are trying to connect to the internet.

 

[xyyz]

<<

<< I'm running Tiny too. But I'm behind an RT314, so it's kind of useless. 🙂 >>


Precisely the same situation here.
I don't have a DMZ machine configured.

This Christmas I got enough money to afford a Cisco 806 Router, though, at the Cisco Networking Academy discount price. 😀

Merry Christmas, all! >>



tell me how that thing works... I am considering de-virinzing my platimum card by buying it through the academy.

 

[Fruitcake77]

😕 I had Tiny Firewall installed for about 3 months or so, before I switched my motherboard and reinstalled everything. It didn't establish any connections of its own to anywhere, I'd sure notice that with ISDN where every bandwidth drop is noticeable.. It was a bit tricky and time consuming to get all configured right (this is a NAT router PC, with another Tiny software, Winroute doing the sharing) but once I did, I was very happy with it.

I know weird things can occur with Windows 98 & SE and networking, I remember upgrading from 98 to SE (clean install) and installing my trusty Sygate (another ICS program). Well, it had worked flawlessly before, but on SE, it stole all of my single 64k bandwidth. This went on as long as internet connection was on, and in a way it was funny as hell. I also couldn' track where excactly it 'uploaded', propably just empty data between me and ISP.

 

[speed01]

I ran ZA for quite some time before building my dual cpu server, then I switched to TPF because ZA didn't support dual cpu's. Tiny has run flawlessly for me since the build although it can be a bit tricky setting it up to allow some traffic to the intranet while blocking it from the internet. I've tried going back to ZA now that it supports multiple processors but had no luck since it doesn't support a server environment. Now I have a router and only run TPF when the Quake server is up. Overall I prefer Tiny due to the amount of control you have over the traffic.