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Posted by Jinx on Mon Dec 13th at 5:58pm 2004

I'm considering setting up my old P2 400 to run a SmoothWall. Two of the guys from work have one set up and love it.

SmoothWall is intended for use by anyone from home users to systems administrators. It can run on virtually any 32-bit Intel or i386-compatible PC from a 486 to an Athlon or Pentium 4, and it enables that PC to become a dedicated firewall appliance, aka a SmoothWall box. Apart from the PC to run SmoothWall on, all that is required is an Internet connection, some simple networking equipment to connect the SmoothWall box to the rest of your private LAN, and the SmoothWall CD image file.





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Posted by Andrei on Mon Dec 13th at 6:04pm 2004

ZoneAlarm is pretty good, although it get annoying sometimes when it refuses to remember your settings. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Mon Dec 13th at 8:29pm 2004

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Same here. Using a linksys router, and don't have any problems.


Represent.

I haven't found many routers that have the ease and reliability Linksys routers have for home networks.


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Posted by G.Ballblue on Mon Dec 13th at 9:34pm 2004

Trend Micro is good. Only problem is, it has the tendency to give you a virus update WHILE I'm in the middle of a C-S game [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Tue Dec 14th at 6:39am 2004

+1 for kerio. Good firewall IMO.




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Posted by Forceflow on Tue Dec 14th at 6:57am 2004

About the WinXP firewall: Face it, it's not that good. You cannot (or it is very hard to) define specific rules for several ports. Plus: sure, it will protect you from incoming attacks, but it is no match against trojans already installed on your system (things that come by e-mail or P2P) finding their way out.

Besides my router firewall, I'm using Agnitum Outpost Firewall. I have the Pro version, but the Free version does - in fact - the very same thing, except for the Pro version having more Logging support.

It's a decent firewall, and does more than that: it blocks malicious code on webpages (dangerous ActiveX controls), filters webpages on bad words (good for the kids), defeats DOS-attacks, filters ads out of webpages (In Firefox and IE oh, handy !)

I kinda used most of them free firewalls out there, and Agnitum and Sygate were the best.


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Posted by $loth on Tue Dec 14th at 7:35am 2004

Used to use zone alarm, but i've got f-secure now.

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