<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Have to agree , I personally use checkpoint
small Office, but for a windows software solution I have to say Sygate
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Good and clear rules and logs, and blocking
also never seen it lag any programs, plus more control over what comes
in and out.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Last question: Hardware and software firewalls
dont exist do they? or they all the same thing on different boxes? hehehe</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Guys,<br>
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if you´re in need of a real good professional firewall for Windows systems,<br>
you should take a good look at Sygate Personal Fw Pro 5<br>
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http://smb.sygate.com/products/pspf/whatsnew_pspf.htm<br>
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Forget silly stuff like ZoneAlarm or BlackICE...<br>
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Best<br>
+frank<br>
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Lars Duesing wrote on Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2003:<br>
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> Hi JT, <br>
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>> Does anyone have any experience using the Linksys WITH Zone Alarm,
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>> does it provide any features<br>
>> that either product on their own do not? Thanks for any info.<br>
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> First of all, I don't own any linksys firewall, but others (ranging
from<br>
> a Debian system up to GeNUA appliances...)<br>
> ZoneAlarm has in my eyes a very interesting feature. As it runs on
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> clients' system it can distinguish which (local) application is allowed<br>
> to send data to the net. In days of gator et al a very nice feature.<br>
> This is rarely to be done at central firewall - how should it distiguish<br>
> good and bad applications (ok, IP-filter could do something, but this<br>
> filterlist has to be managed and updated...). <br>
> So if an user knows how to use this personal firewalls, it is yet<br>
> another step of security.<br>
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> greetings from munich, germany.<br>
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> Lars Duesing<br>
> Students' Council, Munich University Of
Applied Sciences<br>
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