[AccessD] OT: Firewall

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software bchacc at san.rr.com
Sun Oct 9 23:27:06 CDT 2005


Are you behind a router firewall?  Is that sufficient?

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall


>I use Sygate personal on all of my machines.  Works fine, lasts a long 
>time,
> with proper maintenance.
>
> John W. Colby
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin -
> Beach Access Software
> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:07 AM
> To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Firewall
>
>
> I\'m having a huge problem getting Zone Alarm on one of our computers 
> I've
> used it for years with no problem, upgraded this one box from Version 3 to
> the latest, it blocks internet access and give a page full of instructions
> on how to solve the problem - none of which work.
>
> Uninstalled, reinstalled,  cleaned registry per their instructions, 
> renamed
> the internet log, blah, blah.
>
> At the moment the machine is behind the router firewall (like all of them)
> so I don't know if I should be too concerned but I've always run a 
> firewall
> on each machine in addition to the hardware firewall in the Linksys.
>
> I'm not wedded to Zone Alarm and I'm looking at Sygate's product ( another
> free one : http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm) .  Anyone know
> about this?  Any other recommendations for a personal firewall?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Rocky
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