Need a little help here

What is the better firewall. ZA, SPF, or KPF. I have ZA now and find it to be good but it's a lot on memory. Has anyone ever tried one of the other firewalls. I also tried Outpost and it kept making my ISP get error messages. Thanks

 

Your experience with Outpost is unfortunate for many people here found it to be just what they were loooking for last night.
Is it possible someone can help you get it working on your system. I would hold of on ZA for the moment as they seem to be working the bugs out of the new changes..I am sure when they are all finished..the various version from Zone Labs will be stable.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,4069879~root=security,1~mode=flat

 

Paul thanks for the info. As for the problem with outpost i used to get an explorer error every time I opened up IE. It was a good firewall but I just hated the errors. I like the fact that it blocked pop ups and stuff.


Mynet I have ZA 3.1 free anf it just seems that it mags lot of sites slow and a little laggy. I know the 2.6 didn't do that. Thanks for your help

 

HI notageek. I'm a mod at the Agnitum Outpost support forum and I don't remember any problems like that being reported.
We like to think that Outpost offers the best support around. Did you try to get some help? I wouldn't like to use a product that generated errors every time I used it either. Outpost is not in a habit of doing that, so I think we could help you figure it out.
If you decide you would like to get it to work, let us help at the Outpost forum. http://www.agnitum.com/forum/

 

Hi root, I'm trying out Sygate free right now. I'm still learning on it. I was gonna download outpost again and try it one more time here soon but I need a little more info on it before I install it and uninstall SPF. Thanks for your info.

 

Hello all,

I used to use kerio (formerly tiny) for about 2 years. Kerio is an excellent choice IMHO. I just recently changed to Look'n'Stop which IMHO is better than Kerio.

If you are looking for a "free" firewall, I consider Kerio to be the choice. If you do not mind paying, Look'n'Stop cannot be beat.

Regards,
Kent

 

Well Kent thatnk you for you info. I'm now trying outpost again. It is working fine now and I hope it stays working fine. Just one thing is that these smilies and others on other forums don't work at all.

 

If the smilies are not working you probably need to allow js for the forums in question.
If you need some help, see me at the Outpost forum, please.
As a tip. When you go to a website and some button is missing, something doesn't work right, look at the logs for ads and active content. They will usually show what is being blocked and then you can allow it for that site or globally.

 

LoL I was heading over to the outpost forum right now. Thanks for your info.

 

NotAgeek

the errors you are getting...is it "WANT TO REPORT AN ERROR" to M$ ? if so...its not your firewall....other than your firewall is blocking as it should. I get hammered with this "want to report an error" nonsense........never had the problem until I updated to sp2 for IE....its happened twice...Reformatted once because of it.....
its an automatic update......no problem actually exists.

snowman

 

No the errors was browser has caused and invalid page fualt or explorer has caused and invalid page fault. I got one tonight it was in the flash.oxc (I think that was the name of the file). a few before was in the kernal32.dll, mshtml.dll and mfc42.dll. lol I don't them them anymore, but when I do I'm going start to ggogle and looking them up.

 

dont get za pro it blow they knew about a registring problem for more then 4 months and still hadnt fix it=)

i use to like black ice but not sure how there new verstion compares to the rest=)

 

NotAgeek

Does it want to send an error report to M$

snowman

just trying to make sure the firewall is even involded..

 

blaze thanks for the info. I will not get ZAP. I will stick with outpost or sygate found both of them to be a good firewall.
But good looking out man. I don't like all the system resouces ZA uses lol.

 

Snowy nope is dodn't want to send error report back to m$. Just one of those close the program box lol.

Now I'm trying to figure out why it says error on page down in the left hand corner of IE over top of the start menu. It puzzles me cuz like I posted before I can click on the smiley's and make one like that. But I posted that over at the outpost forum. But if anyone here knows what's going you can answer me here lol.

 

NotAgeek

bear with me a moment.....specifically I am trying to find out if you have automatic update dis-abled or enabled??

if its disabled it will need to ask your permission before sending.......mine is dis-abled so I don't know what would happen if automatic update is enabled....I am wondering if after warning you it sends a report to M$.....without you knowing it..................my reason for thinking this is I don't think its a problem with outpost.......others would have reported it by now.....(did this happen with your other firewall or just with outpost)

snowman

 

Just outpost. I have auto check for updates off.

 

NotAgeek

ok.....with updates dis-abled...if the error message was because of that...it would happen with any firewall...so that can be ruled out now.

the only other thing I can think of off hand is if zone alarm was not completed removed prior to trying outpost.....Root would have to help you with that......
will post back if I remember anything that may cause such problems...

snowman

 

NotAgeek

was just re-reading your very first post on this topic.....you stated "I have ZA now"" NotAgeek you DID un-installed ZA before trying Outpost......an not just dis-abled ZA ? the reason I ask.....seems I recall that Outpost does not like to mix with other firewalls.....again Root or an Outpost user could better advise

snowman

 

oh when I got the error messages it was after i reformatted my hd I was going to do a clean install of windows xp but changed my mind and put 98 back in. so I didn't have ZA at the time. I didn't have any firewall. But right now I'm not having any error messages. just the error on page message which won't let web pages to load like they should.

 

NotAgeek

thanks..just wanted to get that question cleared....

NotAgeek I have to shut down....got a few problems...was hit super hard last night.......need to do some repairs.....till later

snowman

 

Thanks snowy for all your help. I hope you fix your problems.

 

Hi,I have used ZA free(it worked well for me)and now I use SPF 5.0 free.I have xp home and I have had no problems with Sygate.I have found that installing/uninstalling a firewall is important.I had to make sure that I correctly uninstalled ZA and rebooted before installing SPF.Being very new to computers it took a while for me to figure this out.

 

There has been a lot of people having problems with unistalling ZA. I alos liked SPF but I changed to Outpost and it's been working great.