Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

yeah, like black ice too. have you tried conseal pc firewall, config is a torture, but it stops everything you config it to stop ;D

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

I'm using NeoWatch by analogX
Easy to use, but it is hard to tell how strong it is.
I'm planning to let a friend of mine try to acess my
machine from his linux machine.

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

For what it's worth I'll second the "turn it off" approach. Even if you do have a firewall, it's best to leave it off when you're not using it if you can. (Personal experience, see the "hacking?" post.)

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

ive tried zonealarm , im not sure how tuff it is but it gets good reviews from every pc mag, though its more for just home users.

i agree with the 'windows disservice' post, run a linux box like rj and use it as the entry to the network from outside.

im to lazy to have any kind of protection (virus or firewall) on my pc, i dont have any sensitive info on it and i format it to often to care about viruses

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

And hardware firewalls like those from the barricade routers...are they any good... does anyone know that?? ??? I'd really wanna know...

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

It seems to differ many are quite simple
I have a linux firewall now, had Neowatch before
which according to shields up https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
neowatch was really good all ports in stealth mode
but my linux route/firewall has all ports as closed
good but not as good as stealth (ports are not there)
it is called floppyfw http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/faq.html
and has DHCP connects and logs in my ADSL
and I can run 100 machines if I like and have big hub  :)

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

well, anything that runs ontop of *nix would be a good start....

what is the point of having the best firewall when your base OS is trash?

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

I use Neo Watch. You can get from http://www.sling.to/fosi/ I like it because it lets to Neo Trace it. Check out that site they got some cool stuff.

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

If ya patch it often and good, and add a couple of third party addons, for scanning http/ftp traficc for viri, I think Microsoft for once realeased an excellent product in Microsoft ISA Server ( Internet & Acceleration server ).

I use it as The 0nly point of access at our corporation, and it's superb, once u get used to the interface (may seem a bit confusing the first time u look at it).
I'm becoming a devil @ packet filters ;)

And it's pretty cheap compared to other solutions out there....

Cl0x

Re: What is the toughest firewall?
 

I can also recommend ZoneAlarm for W95/98/NT as properly working, easy to use and configure freeware.
It's good for desktop PC with limited resources but I think it would also work well on servers.
Steve from grc.com recommended it and I aslo have it installed on one of machines for long time.

As for W2000 I prefer to set filters manually, that's fun ;)

Cheers
Chef



P.S. If you want to try I still have the 2.1.25 v (with no pop-ups).