RE: personal firewalls

["Butler, Gary" <Gary.Butler () gillem-emh1 army mil>]

The security "gurus" from Information Week like ZoneLabs over BlackIce.  Not
only because of the fact that ZoneLabs if free but it protects against out
going as well as incoming.  I guess that means products like that JukeBox or
DDos can't happen to you.  If any of the foregoing is untrue I sure someone
will correct me....
Gary Butler

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Grimshaw [mailto:rgrimsha () syr edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 3:45 PM
To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject: [fw-wiz] personal firewalls



I am doing a research survey of personal firewall products.
I have information on:

  Black Ice Defender     - www.netice.com
  Raptor Mobile          - www.axent.com
  Zone Alarm             - www.zonelabs.com
  Internet Security 2000 - www.symantec.com

I am not really interested in privacy products which claim the name of
personal firewall such as:

  PC Secure (a secondary application sandbox)   - Software Builders
  Guard Dog (blocks cookies)                    - Cybermedia
  Lucent Personal Web Assistant (fakes cookies) - Lucent

Are there any products in the first category that I need to be aware of?

I can go on to say that unseen, I am leaning towards Black Ice for its
good reviews and ability to log to a central database console.

I appreciate your assistance. See you at Sans.

<><Randall Grimshaw, IT-Engineer, Syracuse University, 315-443-5779