Re: Personal Firewall for Business use

[Ivan Hernandez <ivan.hernandez () globalsis com ar>]

Simon Gray wrote:

> > I need to install personal firewall on a win2000 server,
> > can you please recommend me with a good one,
> > and it would be great if someone supplied with a comparison table between
> >    
> most popular >personal firewalls, or a link that gives the same thing.
>
> Could you not use windows tcp/ip network filtering?
>
>  
This is hard to set up UDP filters, and as most irritating thing happen 
with 135UDP on windows (like messenger advertising) it's a very bad way 
to set up a firewall. Also this filter requieres a restart of the system 
for each test, and has no connection tracking features (rejects pakets 
you requested) and does not give you application  level protections 
(your recently downloaded trojan horse will go to shop on internet freely).
it's a pity to have a so unusable filter on windows.

ivan hernandez
http://biromeponja.8k.com


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