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RE: Open Source Personal Firewall?
From: "Petreski, Samuel" <spetreski () highpoint edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:23:05 -0500
Breno, There was a very nice post from Paul on this list about free distribution firewalls. The link is http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=firewalls There are about a dozen firewalls. The current one that I use at home is IPCop found at http://www.ipcop.org and am very very pleased with it. This firewall not only is very easy to configure, but it has a very user friendly web interface with nice statistical data. It performs logging as well as Intrusion Detection. I would highly recommend this firewall to anyone. I have it currently running on a Pentium 200 MMX with 96MB RAM and it runs greatly. Samuel Petreski spetreski () highpoint edu High Point University (336) 841-9290 -----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com] On Behalf Of Breno Jacinto Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 10:30 PM To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com Subject: [fw-wiz] Open Source Personal Firewall? Hello fellows, I've been looking for an OSS Personal Firewall (PF) but googling for one had no results. Of course we have great options for real firewalls (pf is pretty decent), but I'm looking for a solution for the grandma-like user. Any take? What about the commercial ones, such as Zonealarm, BlackIce etc.. any good recommendations (as well as bad ones)? After reading the 'Personal Firewall FAQ' (www.fefe.de/pffaq), which is way radical; a quote: "You can't improve security of an untrusted system by installing another untrustworthy piece of software. You don't have the source code for the operating system or for the new piece of software, so it is impossible to verify that it does anything at all, let alone improve security. In the contrary, adding software increases the system's complexity, increasing the probabilty for undetected bugs and possible new security problems. A firewall is a computer security concept, not a piece of software. Vendors selling you a piece of software (or even a piece of hardware) under the label "firewall" are defrauding you." Is there any sense on the argument above? I mean, people barely use any security layer in their systems, I believe a PF would be better than nothing (well it could stop stupid things such as Blaster from happenning). cheers, // Breno Jacinto // breno () freeunix com br // Key fingerprint = A5C3 3B22 140D C973 6AC6 2D62 2318 B8FA 15F9 D3FC // Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the // ark; professionals built the Titanic. -- Anonymous _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Open Source Personal Firewall? Breno Jacinto (Dec 11)
- Re: Open Source Personal Firewall? Charles Swiger (Dec 12)
- Re: Open Source Personal Firewall? Breno Jacinto (Dec 13)
- Re: Open Source Personal Firewall? Charles Swiger (Dec 14)
- Re: Open Source Personal Firewall? Breno Jacinto (Dec 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Open Source Personal Firewall? Petreski, Samuel (Dec 12)
- Re: Open Source Personal Firewall? Charles Swiger (Dec 12)