Re: Personal Firewalls

[Rob Scott <rob () managesim com>]

Sridhar,
I've used the three products you mention and frankly I thought they 
sucked hard except for Tiny, and that was somewhat limited in the free 
version as I recall..   Personally I use Norton Internet Security 
(commercial), and Outpost (free, lean, clean).  Outpost has great 
ad-blocking and even a DNS cache built into the no-nag free version. I'm 
starting to sound like I work for them tho, which I certainly don't.

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/


-Rob Scott
ManageSim Inc.


Sridhar J wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a PIII 550 m/c running Win98. I need a personal firewall for it.
> I am looking at Zone Alarm, Sygate and Tiny Personal Firewall as my
> options.
>
> My intention is not only to protect my systems, but also to learn
> something about logs and analysing them. In light of this, which do you
> think would be ideal?
>
> No, I don't have a *nix system and don't intend to use it now.
>
>
> ----------
> Regards
> Sridhar J
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