RE: Personal Firewalls

["Austin" <Akallevi () yahoo com>]

I don't see much touting here for WatchGuard or LockDown2000.

http://lockdown2000.com/70caps.html
http://www.watchguard.com/products/soho.html

The one review site that did list LD2k said it didn't protect against
Trojans (outdated??), but the LD2k site says they do.

The WatchGuard SOHO is a box vs a software install app, but doesn't that
make it more appealing since anything added to an OS usually makes unwanted
changes?? Plus it works with Cable/DSL connections.  And I remeber hearing
somewhere that WatchGuard allows all their "clent" installations (boxes) to
be centrally managed.

AtGuard by WRQ was "THE BEST" app but then was raped and molested onto
Norton's platform, robbing some of the great features it once had. Some of
the creature still survives with the NIS2000/2001 app, which is the only
good thing going for it.

On a side note: the Norton Virus scanning part of NIS2xxx sucks to put it
cleanly when it comes to speed of getting new patterns and e-mail scanning.
McAfee still comes up on top for that feature.

I've using AtGuard (since 1997) & ZoneAlarm for desktops, Sygate for DSL
connection, & tested Norton.

Yet another thing not covered by this list which also needs to be considered
is filtration of web content for 'net users in a company setting which,
sadly, NIS2xxx also covers...  rah rah for the Symantec behemoth... :(



-----Original Message-----
From: firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com
[mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com]On Behalf Of Talisker
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 12:42 PM
To: Tony Chryseliou; firewall-wizards () nfr com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Personal Firewalls


Tony
Sorry I was late in on this one, I went down the road last year of trying to
identify every personal firewall, I found these
BlackIce Agent
BlackICE Defender
ConSeal
CyberArmor
Doorstop (Mac)
eSafe Desktop
F-Secure Distributed Firewall
Gnat Box Light
Hack Tracer
McAfee.com Personal Firewall (MFP)
NetBarrier (Mac)
Norton Personal Firewall 2000
PGP Desktop Security
Sphinx
Sybergen Secure Desktop
Sygate
Symantec Desktop Firewall 2.0
Tiny Personal Firewall
VirusMD
Zone Alarm
Zone Alarm Pro

I don't sell them, and quite frankly some of the above suck,  for Win32
Tiny, BlackICE and ZoneAlarm get my vote, details on all the above are on my
site including some reviews all under personal firewalls

Good Luck
And if it's not giving too much away let us know what you settle for and
more importantly why?

Andy
http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Chryseliou" <TonyC () bgls com>
To: <firewall-wizards () nfr com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: [fw-wiz] Personal Firewalls


> I'm currently in the development stage of a VPN project. Will be mostly
> telecommuters. One of the requirements besides the software that will
create
> the VPN tunnel, is to have a mini-firewall that will be installed on the
> client PC.
>
> My only requirement is that "rule sets" be packageable and easily deployed
> after install. Been working with an eval of Symantec Desktop Firewall and
it
> does meet the requirement, but quite frankly, the thing is flaky and
doesn't
> behave consistently.
>
> Are there any other products in this category that I should be looking at?
>
> TIA,
>
> Tony Chryseliou
> Director, IT
> New World Holdings
> 732-544-0155 x165
>
> P.S. Before any says Checkpoint, been there, done that. I refuse to give
> them any more money because of their lousy support, over priced, and
product
> introduction schedule.
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