need a new firewall (urgently)

[tahoma]

need some advice

ive had it with outpost2, for one simple reason, it turns off/disables the 'prevent applications from stealing focus'-setting in tweakui. and im sick of this

what would u recommend as a replacement?
i need
advanced rule creation (like op2 has)
stealth(like op2 has)

preferably activex blocking/allowing for individual sites(like op2 has)

[BWMerlin]

Im using sygate and it has advance rules as well as application rules. Its free and has a great support forum.

[hayc59]

tahoma, sorry to hear Outpost is not working
out for you!!
If it can't be tweaked for you and is that
frustrating. I would suggest Sygate Firewall
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_pro.htm
Or maybe another good one would be Tiny Firewall
http://www.tinysoftware.com/home2/tiny2?s=1172059782715613646A0&offer=standard&pg=tpf5_home
Good luck to you and if you ever decide to change your mind, stop by and we can see what we can do... :)

[puff-m-d]

Hi,

I would suggest giving look'n'stop a try... Very good firewall with very small footprint using little system resources.... I have tried many different firewalls, but always come back to look'n'stop....

More info here http://www.wilderssecurity.info/ and here http://www.looknstop.com/.

Regards,
Kent

[Mr.Blaze]

8)ruled based fire walls blah blah blah

im doing well with my updated zap with web filtering and my 1 spechial rule base thx to lowater mark

only way you can do better is a hardware fire wall baby so if you got the cash go that way

but i think all this advance rulebase is over kill

inless you doing stuff you shouldnt be doing then i can see why being so parynoyed

but if you just surfing why go rule based im outa 8)

[CrazyM]

Hi tahoma

-{ Quote: " quoting: tahoma link=board=23;threadid=14417;start=0#msg90972 date=1064946175]what would u recommend as a replacement?
i need
advanced rule creation (like op2 has)
stealth(like op2 has)

preferably activex blocking/allowing for individual sites(like op2 has)" }-

If you are looking for something that has all those features in one, your options may be limited. For active content filtering and rules based/advanced rules ZAPro and NIS/NPF come to mind.

The alternative is using a rule based firewall along with a good proxy program.

Regards,

CrazyM

[eyespy]

I've always liked Sygate ! Still like it.
But I use ZAP4. Have used ZAP for a while. I really like the privacy features it has.

Sygate or ZA, you can't go wrong. Easy setup and easy configuration.

regards,
bill :)