What firewall do you use?

[msan_msw]

Well, I used Sygate's personal free firewall and apparently they're out of business now and Symantec slurped them up. No way I'll get anything "Nortony" on my system. I'm not a big fan of Zone Alarm anymore. What are folks using these days?

Anyway, I see this... Comodo... anyone using it?

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/comodo-firewall/comodofirewall.html

[sj_hurst]

I used Sygate as well, until they got "slurped." And Comodo "Dragon" sounds like it should be the name of a computer virus (w/ death-dealing, disease laden teeth). lol
http://komodotour.com/images/komodo_dragon2.jpg

But seriously, I've been using a router firewall since. Are the software ones more secure?

[msan_msw]

No, but I like to have one >.<

[Drakkenfyre]

Hardware Firewall + Software Firewall FTW!

ZoneAlarm here

-Drakk )))

[Thetargos]

NetFilter built into Linux' kernel and apply policies through iptables... On my Linksys router? :D

Edit

Ohh, and IPTables/NetFilter policies on my workstation.

[opus512]

The one on my router.

[Lollan]

I'm content with my router's firewall, software firewalls annoy me too much.

[Cop]

I'm using an actual wall made of fire around my computer...

[opus512]

That's gotta play hell on the carpet.

[PaleDuke]

Still using the last free version of Tiny (now Kerio) Personal Firewall.

http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html

[msan_msw]

IIRC, it has a pretty good reputation. I suppose I'll have to do the usual of trying them all and picking one. I liked Sygate for it's simplicity and generally easy rules.

[Gibb]

D-link router. (I had a linksys router for serveral years, but when it finally gave out, I couldn't find a gigabit linksys router, so I got a D-link).

I also keep windows XP firewall on as well.

[msan_msw]

My modem, ~Actiontec, has a firewall but it has four settings. I also like to see what's trying to get in and out of my system. Hardware firewalls do rock, but there are other advantages of a software firewall.

[Akira]

Zonealarm

[Thetargos]

My modem, ~Actiontec, has a firewall but it has four settings. I also like to see what's trying to get in and out of my system. Hardware firewalls do rock, but there are other advantages of a software firewall.

Like what?

You can always watch what's going in or out on your firewall, provided it is a good enough "HW" firewall, like those in routers. There are some that will even e-mail you the log daily.

[opus512]

Modem?

:hmm:

[Mole]

The only software firewalls I've ever used are ZoneAlarm and Sygate.

I didn't particularly like either of them.

[sj_hurst]

No, but I like to have one >.<

That's not a reason. Based on postings heres, software firewalls seem redundant if you have router.

BTW, i imagine bears and komodos wouldn't get along very well. interesting fight that'd be.. I'm sure the bear would win initially, but the komodo would be laughing in its grave when the bear slowly & agonizingly dies from septicemia a week later. see, the name of this firewall is a bad sign for you. :eek:

[labat]

used to have ZA installed on my xp setup.
now I use windows vistas built in firewall as there aint any good compatible rel yet

[msan_msw]

Modem?

:hmm:

I don't really need a router with what I do at this point from what I can see. I have a wireless modem (which is proprietary to Actiontec) that gives me one line for my box and a usb connection to the kids which is all the bandwidth they need. The firewall build into the modem offeres the settings below but if you pick H/M/L then you get the astonishing ability to block 20 ports. I would probably be safe just setting it to low but I like the ability to allow or disallow access to certain programs. For instance, Outlook is generally set to ask me if I want to allow it to access the net so I can check and see if it's trying without my permission if I had a virus or something. I don't have a virus scanner as it sucks too much resources and I just use the online freebies if something seems odd, odd process, startup, service, etc. Zone Alarm is just too bloated for me to a certain extent.

[Thetargos]

You have a router/modem, and you can set other policies (port forwarding, DMZ, etc) You should also be able to set logging on/off...

[Svperstar]

Router firewall.

[Maniac]

I'm content with my router's firewall, software firewalls annoy me too much.
:stupid:

[Trip]

No firewall at all. Firewalls in general annoy me too much... if someone wants to really try to hax0r their way into my computer they won't find much besides games and shitty papers that I wrote in high school. Plus my thought is, if they really want to, they'll probably get around a firewall anyway, hackers are always a few steps ahead of everyone else, windows has enough security flaws in it to prove that :D

[Trayal]

Router with dd-wrt (http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) installed.

[Thetargos]

That firmware r0xXoRz

[Drakkenfyre]

That's not a reason. Based on postings heres, software firewalls seem redundant if you have router.

Despite having a Hardware Firewall I still get hits on my software Firewall, far fewer, but still hits nonetheless

-Drakk )))

[BloodyL]

Linksys WRT54GL router with DD-WRT to stop stuff coming in, and Comodo software firewall to stop stuff getting out / contacting home.

[opus512]

No firewall at all. Firewalls in general annoy me too much... if someone wants to really try to hax0r their way into my computer they won't find much besides games and shitty papers that I wrote in high school. Plus my thought is, if they really want to, they'll probably get around a firewall anyway, hackers are always a few steps ahead of everyone else, windows has enough security flaws in it to prove that :D
That's the thing, someone has to want to get into your computer in the first place. When I had the store I had my main system outside the router (I had a bank of IP's) and ran it straight on with no software firewall installed and never had a problem past what NAV and AdAware/SpyBot couldn't take care of. Our server systems got nailed a couple of times, though.

[Lollan]

Another vote for DD-WRT, I used to have an Alchemy firmware, but this has so many more options, I love it. Would be sweet if they had a notifier on the router's memory usage statistics, hah!

[msan_msw]

No firewall at all. Firewalls in general annoy me too much... if someone wants to really try to hax0r their way into my computer they won't find much besides games and shitty papers that I wrote in high school. Plus my thought is, if they really want to, they'll probably get around a firewall anyway, hackers are always a few steps ahead of everyone else, windows has enough security flaws in it to prove that :D


I'm in the same boat to a certain extent. I backup my important stuff but I worry about keyloggers that could steal my gaming accounts or having my stuff deleted or corrupted in some way. A software firewall helps with some of this stuff. My foremost concern is that someone will get my credit card info when I buy stuff online and I'm pretty anal about that. I guess I have residual paranoia from my college days when we routinely messed with each others computers on the floor LAN, heh.

[Despoiler]

I just have NAT enabled on my Actiontec.

[Thetargos]

Another vote for DD-WRT, I used to have an Alchemy firmware, but this has so many more options, I love it. Would be sweet if they had a notifier on the router's memory usage statistics, hah!

Well, you could implement it ;) All it would take you, though is to have a page opened in the summary page of the firmware for you to see that...

[Lollan]

Well, you could implement it ;) All it would take you, though is to have a page opened in the summary page of the firmware for you to see that...

... I know that, I want to set alerts

[Thetargos]

Well, you *could* get a minimal install of sendmail and have the system e-mail you a "tail -f firewall.log" or whatever, every time 5 or so alerts accumulate. Or even make it so that with each logged action a mail be dispatched. This however would at least require half a meg extra for the functionality, and you would have to have some sort of mail server going (not on the router itself, but somwhere in your netowrk... It would be interesting if you could use your Yahoo or Gmail accounts for that effect too)

[french doll]

I have a question for you computer guys or girls. I am very new to computers, and I have PC-cillin, and it says my virus protection is turned off. I don't know if I accidentally turned it off, or what. But, I have tried everything to get it back on. It says my firewall is on, but the security alert says to turn on my installed anti-virus protection.

[EG]

ZA Pro

[Lollan]

Well, you *could* get a minimal install of sendmail and have the system e-mail you a "tail -f firewall.log" or whatever, every time 5 or so alerts accumulate. Or even make it so that with each logged action a mail be dispatched. This however would at least require half a meg extra for the functionality, and you would have to have some sort of mail server going (not on the router itself, but somwhere in your netowrk... It would be interesting if you could use your Yahoo or Gmail accounts for that effect too)

I have an exchange server set up. ;)

[Thetargos]

I have a question for you computer guys or girls. I am very new to computers, and I have PC-cillin, and it says my virus protection is turned off. I don't know if I accidentally turned it off, or what. But, I have tried everything to get it back on. It says my firewall is on, but the security alert says to turn on my installed anti-virus protection.

Maybe another thread will draw more attention from our Windows experts who run AV software... However, it would look like either PC-Cilling is not loading at startup as it should or its registration has expired (which I'm not sure will cause this behaviour)... Any AV experts around, Lolland?

[BarMonger]

I use my router firewall for both my desktop and laptop (when the laptop is used at home).
The desktop also has the nvFirewall that is built-in on my motherboard, the laptop uses windows firewall.

[BqS]

winxp wont report pc-cillin off, even if expired, but rather claim its out of date/sub ran out...

right click the pc-cillin icon in your systray and make sure av protection is checked, that be my 1st guess shrug

as for firewall, using TM PC-Cillin Internet blah blah, so far so good...

[Blighter]

trend 07.

[french doll]

winxp wont report pc-cillin off, even if expired, but rather claim its out of date/sub ran out...

right click the pc-cillin icon in your systray and make sure av protection is checked, that be my 1st guess shrug

as for firewall, using TM PC-Cillin Internet blah blah, so far so good...

You were right, and I did what you said, and played around a little and somehow got it back on. I did a virus scan, and thankfully all it reported was some picture I downloaded dropped a cookie. I followed the instructions and got rid of it. I still don,t know how I turned it off in the first place. As you can tell I'm not very computer savvy, but this sight has upped my computer I.Q. to above retarded(barely). Much thanks.

[BqS]

np, glad it works again :)

[Rainbow]

I'm using an actual wall made of fire around my computer...

:lol:

[msan_msw]

FYI, I went with Comodo. It's ok, I don't much like it opening several processes but it is versitile and does tell you what's going in and out.