[AccessD] OT: Firewall

Rocky,
I use SPF on a number of "home" clients. Mostly people with home offices. It
is quite respectable. Only problem is that Symantec (Norton) recenlty
acquired it. May be an issue in the future.

When I found this out I questioned people for another freebie firewall.
Someone mentioned Kerio's personal firewall. Unforutnately they are ending
that product so I'm not even going there.

I use CA's EZ-armor firewall on my main computer now (since Norton 2005 was
such a pain) It is very good too. It is actually zone labs too but
apparently by some licensing scheme between the two companies.

Panda has one built in to their Titanium product but I find their products a
bit cumbersome.

Norton's Personal Firewall always worked good (2000-2004) for me but I won't
recommend any of their 2005 series of products. I have a number of clients
where it runs fine but I have also had my share of bad experineces with it.

HTH
John B.


-----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 10:07 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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