[AccessD] OT: free Sygate personal

There, you said it better than I did Lambert. That is what I meant.
The router "firewall" does a good job of protecting inbound snooping
but doesn't stop the "calling home" stuff that the Software Firewall
does.

I have found that the software firewall sometimes can be a pain in the
back side in dealing with stuff inside my router though. I had one
system on that I had to shut down the router in order to get a drive
mapped to another system work. I had rules set up to specifically
allow it but it would stop working every time the system was restarted
and I had to then stop the firewall, the open something on the mapped
drive, then turn on the firewall again. That was using Norton's
Firewall on that system and after a hard drive crash on that system I
did not reload that firewall on that system specifically because of
that issue.

I'm sad that Sygate will be going away. I have had their free firewall
running for years on one of my system and have had zero problems with
it. It just works.

Thanks for chiming in with the clarification Lambert.

GK

On 12/1/05, Heenan, Lambert <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com> wrote:
> Curious. I would have said that the firewall *in a router* protects you from
> port scanners and the like trying to get IN. But what it does nothing about
> is protecting you from programs on your system that want to call home.
>
> For instance I was looking for a freeware file splitter that could handle
> multi-gigabyte files. One that I tried looked ok "on paper" until I tried
> using it. Then my software firewall advised me that two spyware programs
> came along with the package, one was intending to report home on every
> website that I visited. Needless to say all three products were removed
> (sorry I didn't keep a note of which they were).
>
> Without a software firewall I would have been a victim of today's mallware
> brigade.
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:56 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: free Sygate personal
>
>
> The firewall mostly protects you from stuff going OUT, not coming in. The
> built into Xp firewall is getting better. I might be trusting it on one or
> more of my systems. Or not. Don't want to tip my hand ;-)
>
>
> On 11/30/05, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote:
> > If you're behind a router with a firewall (and running AV scanning
> > email,
> > etc.) do you need one of these additional products?
> >
> > Rocky
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Heenan, Lambert" <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com>
> > To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
> > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:51 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: free Sygate personal
> >
> >
> > >I just started to use the free version of the Outpost firewall and I
> > >have to  say I'm very happy with it.
> > >
> > > http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpostfree/download.php
> > >
> > > Lambert
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John
> > > Colby
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:28 AM
> > > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> > > Subject: [AccessD] OT: free Sygate personal
> > >
> > >
> > > Is the free version of the Sygate firewall now gone?  Symantic
> > > bought Sygate and I cannot find a "download free version" link
> > > anymore.
> > >
> > > John W. Colby
> > > www.ColbyConsulting.com
> > >
> > > Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
> > > http://folding.stanford.edu/
> > >
> > > --
> > > AccessD mailing list
> > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
> > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
> > > --
> > > AccessD mailing list
> > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
> > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
> > >
> >
> > --
> > AccessD mailing list
> > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
> >
>
>
> --
> Gary Kjos
> garykjos at gmail.com
> --
> AccessD mailing list
> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
> --
> AccessD mailing list
> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
>


--
Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com