Which personal firewall do you like the best ?

Hmm if you want good outbound protection, given the loopback bug , Sygate is the last FW you should use I think.

 

I'll wait for LnS 2.05 final to be released. This should help a bit for outbound protection.

In the meantime, I stay with Sygate and the best security software, my brain.

And as you say, " Whatever you do, don't listen to me!"

 

i like zone alarm pro

 

thanks you all for polling, results are used to update my webpage :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jugesoftware/firewallleaktester/eng/statistics.htm

keep polling

 

zone alarm is a good firewall

 

I like OutPost Pro.

The default configurations work well for most things (all things here, actually) and the plug-ins simply can't be beat. Pete

 

I like FREE firewalls best and therefore, Kerio. The free version has some bells and whistles disabled, but it's fine with me, I don't surf with IE, and they are mostly related to IE problems (activeX blocking etc.)

I did try out some other, commercial ones, like ZoneAlarm PRO (too basic), Sygate (just unpleasant to look at) and TPF (used it for a while, after it broke down the third time and I had to set it up by clicking these tiny cells, I gave up). But will go right away to try Outcast and LookNStop

 

In this community I still might consider myself a llama , but @ least I'm not a shy one

So, untill now, I've only tried 2 FW's:

*ZoneAlarm;
which worked fine with my dinosaur system (P1 120 mhz!) in combination with dial-up connection

But as I finally started to play in the major league, and got myself a new P4 with broadband , I figured it was time to learn some more about serious and safe surfing. A friend of mine suggested

*Sygate;
and that's what I've been running for a week now -with great satisfaction, I must add. It's indeed clear and obvious enough for a guy like me, to set and forget. In contrary to other postings; I happen to like the plain and sober interface.

But hey- nothing to debate about personal taste

I'll try some of the other FW's mentioned here later (the first time Sygate is letting me down haha )

Grtz,
Slammer

 

I am using F-Secure Client Security right now. It has both AntiVirus and Firewall components. It is doing a very good job so far.

 

I've only used Zonealarm free and paid for NPF. Why does everyone rate NPF so poorly ? It passes all tests on GRC.com.

 

zone alarm is the best

 

thanks for polling everyone, i will update my website's page as soon as it will be a little more results, so i keep en eye on it

 

Outpost has never let me down gkweb

 

my choice is sygate personal firewall
at first, i used zonealarm , but it always locks up my internet access and also uses too much system resources
sygate allows you to create advance rules and has a more comprehensive log files than zonealarm

 

I'm changing my vote from ZAP to undecided. ZAP will not let me on the internet despite rules being created by me and applications being taken out of the list. I'm using NPF with my KAV right now.

 

zone alarm

 

need again 2 posts and i will update results on my website

 

i like both outpost and zone alarm . but i will go with zone alarm because of its features

 

Hi,

I never tried them all. Anyway I use Panda Platinum Firewall.
Tried McAfee, but i dumped after one day.

 

With the risk of being 'dumped'from this thread I just couldn't help noticing the motto beneath your avatar, Gerard:

Have I finally met a fellow bridgeplayer here?
(Where do you think my ID is coming from? )
groetjes,
Slammer

 

Hi Slemmer,

Yes indeed a bridge player.

Greetjes,

Gerard

 

oh wow....lol. I can't believe Zone Alarm is actually winning

weird I personally use Zone Alarm, I've tried Kerio and Outpost, and Sygate (I can't really remember WHY I chose to uninstall/stop using either of those lol) But Sygate, I experienced crazy CPU/mem usage with it....I think it was cause I was paranoid and went messing around with the logging settings and set all the fields to 9999999 for best/most logging results or something. So I uninstalled it I cant remember why I uninstalled Kerio and Outpost though, I dont think I got too far into Outpost, because I missed the DNS Cache that it has (is it a plugin by chance? and maybe I didn't have that plugin?) so I think I might try out Outpost again, because for my HOSTS file-ad-blocking process over @ bluetack.co.uk, the DNS cache might help me a bit, by logging all websites I visit .

But yea, I use Zone Alarm free on my dialup box (currently my "testing" box, lol I tested Kerio/Outpost/Sygate on it). I stuck with it because of the easy IP importing/blocking using ZA Update 2.0. But IP Blocking isn't that big of a deal for me now, since DudeZ over @ bluetack released ProtoWall that blocks IPs @ driver/system level. So yea, I might try out Outpost and Sygate again and compare em Maybe Ill read this thread me and see if anyone can sell em to me either way hehe.


BTW, juding from that firewall tester site.....lol. ZA Free version = SHITE LOL. It don't block anything

 

Never mind - I seem to have solved my problem with ZAP.

 

I go with Zone Alarm Pro

I used Zone Alarm Free, Sygate Free, Zone Alarm Pro, Sygate Pro, Kerio 4.010, and Outpost 2.1. Now, I am using Zone Alarm Pro.

I used Zone Alarm and Sygate without utilizing expert rules before. They were very easy to use without using expert rules. But the problem is that user does not have full control on outbound traffic without using expert rules. As a newbie, I was happy with them.

Then, I wanted to try something new. So I switched to rule based firewalls such as Kerio and Outpost. I studied how to generate rule sets with Kerio and Outpost, and they all worked pretty well. I was happy with them too.

Again, I was somehow tired with Kerio and Outpost. So I come back to use Zone Alarm Pro again. This time, I have generated my own expert rule sets to have a full control on outbound traffic. The idea here is a layered protection: the layer of my expert rule sets + the layer of zone alarm default settings. Both of the layers can work pretty well without each other. But when they work together, the protection is much better. The zone alarm default rules are general. In other words, they are not tight enough. So my expert rules tighten the default settings. On the other hand, I might have missed something, and thus there might be some 'security holes' in my expert rules. The zone alarm deffault settings can cover up these 'holes', as they work fine even without my expert rules.

Fortunately, ZoneAlarm Pro works fine on my box. ZoneAlarm Pro, Sygate Pro, and Outpost Pro 2.1 all takes about 20MB RAM on my box. I have not seen any obvious disadvantage of ZAP so far.

 

Been using Kerio 2.1.5 and am very happy with it. Had NIS 2002, got hacked, sucked down the resources bad. Tried ZA free, very erratic protection, repeatedly lost the entire ruleset.
Kerio 2.1.5 has worked flawlessly. It has the features that make a firewall good and none of the bloat of others. Their newer version doesn't look nearly as good. Tried it, removed it the same day.
Rick