Re: Personal Firewall Recommendations

["Gopinath" <gopinath_r () naturesoft net>]

Is it contains SMTP and HTTP proxy!

Gopinath
----- Original Message -----
From: "Halverson, Chris" <chris.halverson () encana com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:50 PM
Subject: RE: Personal Firewall Recommendations


> Sygate Personal Firewall is a very good product as well.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Hedges [mailto:netethix () iprimus com au]
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 5:48 PM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Personal Firewall Recommendations
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The personal firewalls I have used predominantly are ZoneAlarms and Tiny.
> Whilst their interfaces are different, they both are good. I use a machine
> that I have setup for home and corporate use. I found ZoneAlarms to block
a
> few network services before I had chance to decide on their fate (ie.
during
> an asset managed/software delivery type login process. Tiny didn't have
the
> same issues... and what I liked about Tiny Firewall 5.0 is that it has a
> built in Host-based IDS/IPS which I haven't checked out all the functions,
> but so far looks like you can detect against access controls to the system
> and check against a wide range of vulnerabilities/exploits yada yada
yada...
> Tiny's Firewall learning mode offers some pretty intuitive choices, so
your
> friend will have to go through an initial period to accept/deny aspects of
> his normal interconnectivity behaviour, such as what programs he believes
is
> trusted and should run, and allow/deny on inbound internet connectivity
and
> outbound internet connectivity. The decisions (as you would expect) are
> based on a once off or always mentality.
>
> Last thing, (and a) this doesnt apply to home use and; b) I dont work for
> Tiny) I havent' seen their management layer, but their website says it can
> scale up to hundreds/thousands of desktop firewalls. I'll be keenly
watching
> and evaluating their enterprise management layer, as in a corporate
> enterprise this is a must. I hope it allows for remote policy pushing to
> groups or individual desktop firewalls, aswell as a central or
hierarchical
> alerting/logging facility ...
>
> Nigel H
> CISSP, CISA, Security+
>
>
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>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <security () mafisi com>
> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Personal Firewall Recommendations
>
>
> > I would recommend Ipcop; It requires a dedicated box but works great for
> > me. I run it on a P75
> > http://www.ipcop.org
> >
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> > > I've been installing a new system for a friend, and am wondering what
> > > personal firewalls might be recommended for a home system running
> > > Windows 2000 on a T1 line.  Anyone have a recommendation other than
> > > ZoneAlarm?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
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