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Started by Fenryl August 08, 2005 05:01 PM

8 comments, last by Obscure 18 years, 8 months ago

Fenryl

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August 08, 2005 05:01 PM

Hi, I'm in search for a good personal firewall. The firewall have to be free as I don't have any money. I would like a firewall with these features: IP blocking :p (it have to filter IP traffic) Invisible mode Able to block applications that acces the internet It have to run under windows... Any suggestions?

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clrscr

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August 08, 2005 10:44 PM

Sygate

I dont if it has everything u need but its great, I've been running it for a couple years now no major problems.

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Doggan

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August 08, 2005 11:20 PM

Zone Alarm is free for personal use. Has all the features you ask for. So far I'm happy with it ;)

Nik02

4,359

August 09, 2005 03:42 AM

Kerio Personal Firewall is very good.

Niko Suni

python_regious

929

August 09, 2005 07:01 AM

I go with the ZoneAlarm choice, it's what I use and is really easy to use.

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dave

2,188

August 09, 2005 07:12 AM

Quote:Original post by clrscr
Sygate

I dont if it has everything u need but its great, I've been running it for a couple years now no major problems.

Hmm, i've had a couple of problems with it. Like sometimes for long periods it decides that it isnt going to boot into the system tray any more. Also when i installed it onto my sisters pc in place of McAfee, whenever i logged onto the interweb i got this DrWatson process hogging all the CPU.

Any ideas about these...

ace

Nemesis2k2

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August 09, 2005 07:17 AM

I've been using ZoneAlarm Pro for several years. If the free version is even a shadow of it, I'd have to recommend it.

Quote:Also when i installed it onto my sisters pc in place of McAfee, whenever i logged onto the interweb i got this DrWatson process hogging all the CPU.

Dr Watson is an error reporting/analysis portion of Windows. Your error handler crashed. I've seen it a few times before.

benryves

2,001

August 09, 2005 07:19 AM

Quote:Original post by ace_lovegrove
...i got this DrWatson process hogging all the CPU.

You can easily stop that (on XP) by disabling error reporting. Something has crashed, and it's busy writing a memory dump/log file about the error.
To disable that, press WinKey+Break, go into the "Advanced" tab, click "Error Reporting" and disable it.

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Nemesis2k2

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August 09, 2005 07:23 AM