what free AND LIGHT personal firewall?
Elric di Melnibone'
I'm looking for a *free* and *light* personal firewall, to use it on my
acer aspireone (with windows xp home)
On my desktop PC I used Comodo firewall, but it seems to me a little bit
heavy for a netbook, I don't want to slow it down too much...
ZoneAlarm? Outpost?
Thank you!
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Volker Birk
> I'm looking for a *free* and *light* personal firewall, to use it on my
> acer aspireone (with windows xp home)
Just use the Windows-Firewall.
Yours,
VB.
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Elric di Melnibone'
> Elric di Melnibone' <i...@noi.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking for a *free* and *light* personal firewall, to use it on my
>> acer aspireone (with windows xp home)
>
> Just use the Windows-Firewall.
>
> Yours,
> VB.
Thanks, but..if I want another firewall? :-S
Todd H.
> Volker Birk ha scritto:
>> Elric di Melnibone' <i...@noi.com> wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a *free* and *light* personal firewall, to use it
>>> on my acer aspireone (with windows xp home)
>> Just use the Windows-Firewall.
>> Yours,
>> VB.
>
> Thanks, but..if I want another firewall? :-S
Reconsider?
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Volker Birk
> Volker Birk ha scritto:
>> Elric di Melnibone' <i...@noi.com> wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a *free* and *light* personal firewall, to use it on my
>>> acer aspireone (with windows xp home)
>> Just use the Windows-Firewall.
Why would you want that?
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G
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>
> If you insist on using a 3rd party firewall try Online Armor from Tallemu.
Online Armor isn't really lightweight. If you feel you must have
something beyond the Windows firewall, try the last freeware version of
Tiny Personal Firewall.
Kayman
> If you insist on using a 3rd party firewall try Online Armor from Tallemu.
Snakeoil #1
Kayman
Snakeoil #2
Kayman
> Hello,
> I'm looking for a *free* and *light* personal firewall, to use it on my
> acer aspireone (with windows xp home)
> On my desktop PC I used Comodo firewall, but it seems to me a little bit
> heavy for a netbook, I don't want to slow it down too much...
> ZoneAlarm? Outpost?
For the average homeuser, the Windows Firewall in XP does a fantastic job
at its core mission and is really all you need if you have an 'real-time'
anti-virus program, [another firewall on your router or] other edge
protection like SeconfigXP and practise Safe-Hex.
The windows firewall deals with inbound protection and therefore does not
give you a false sense of security. Best of all, it doesn't implement lots
of nonsense like pretending that outbound traffic needs to be monitored.
Activate and utilize the Win XP built-in Firewall; Uncheck *all* Programs
and Services under the Exception tab.
Windows XP: How to turn on your firewall.
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/firewall/xp.mspx
Read through:
Understanding Windows Firewall.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_wfintro.mspx
Using Windows Firewall.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/security/winfirewall.mspx
PFW Criticism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_firewall#Criticisms
"Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil.
http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html
Why your firewall sucks.
http://tooleaky.zensoft.com/
"But I quickly realized the truth: The added protection provided by
outbound filtering is entirely illusory."
At Least This Snake Oil Is Free.
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/07/19/at-least-this-snake-oil-is-free.aspx
Deconstructing Common Security Myths.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/05/SecurityMyths/default.aspx
Scroll down to:
"Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound Traffic to be Safe."
Exploring the windows Firewall.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/06/VistaFirewall/default.aspx
"Outbound protection is security theater嚙碼it嚙踝蕭s a gimmick that only gives the
impression of improving your security without doing anything that actually
does improve your security."
In conjunction with WinXP SP2 Firewall use:
Seconfig XP 1.0
http://seconfig.sytes.net/
--or--
Configuring NT-services much more secure.
http://www.ntsvcfg.de/ntsvcfg_eng.html
Routinely practice Safe-Hex.
http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html
Hundreds Click on 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2132447,00.asp
And (just in case) Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) has been
superseded by Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA2) and/or IEEE 802.11.
Good luck :)
Casey
says...
>
> Hello,
> I'm looking for a *free* and *light* personal firewall, to use it on my
> acer aspireone (with windows xp home)
> On my desktop PC I used Comodo firewall, but it seems to me a little bit
> heavy for a netbook, I don't want to slow it down too much...
> ZoneAlarm? Outpost?
>
> Thank you!
Try Sygate Personal Firewall.
http://www.oldversion.com/Sygate-Personal-Firewall.html
Casey
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers
> Try Sygate Personal Firewall.
If you want to entrust your security to outdated, unsupported software.
Otherwise don't.
cu
59cobalt
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their architecture they should go back and re-architect their solution."
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Casey
says...
>
> Casey <ca...@invalid.address> wrote:
> > Try Sygate Personal Firewall.
>
> If you want to entrust your security to outdated,
unsupported software.
> Otherwise don't.
>
> cu
> 59cobalt
Sygate, allthough old is still a very good firewall.
It has all the necessary compontnts needed in a good
firewall---none have been lost with age.
There is nothing to keep updated such as
anti virus/trojan signatures.
Casey
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers
> usene...@planetcobalt.net says...
>> Casey <ca...@invalid.address> wrote:
>>> Try Sygate Personal Firewall.
>>
>> If you want to entrust your security to outdated, unsupported software.
>> Otherwise don't.
>
It is also still outdated and unsupported, and has thus no place
whatsoever in any reasonable security concept.
> It has all the necessary compontnts needed in a good firewall---none
> have been lost with age.
> There is nothing to keep updated such as anti virus/trojan signatures.
Because the program is guaranteed to never have any exploitable bug
anymore. Particularly not in relation to its well-known design flaws.
Yeah, right.
But I've already explained that to you time and again.
Volker Birk
> Sygate, allthough old is still a very good firewall.
It's crap.
> It has all the necessary compontnts needed in a good
> firewall---none have been lost with age.
Which one do you mean?
That it installs a sysem service which opens windows, making shatter
attacks possible?
Or that it's completely useless with it's "outbound filtering", because
one can trick it in minutes?
Yours,
VB.
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dfinc
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers
> ZoneAlarm
> threatFire
> Kaspersky Firewall
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
G
@w9g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, dfin...@yahoo.com says...
I would recommend against ThreatFire. The program installs a keyboard
hook that remains after removing the program. In many cases, it leads to
a non-functional keyboard after uninstalling ThreatFire. It requires a
manual registry edit to get your keyboard back. They have been aware of
this problem since 2007, but have yet to correct it.
Kayman
> ZoneAlarm
Snakeoil #3
> threatFire
Snakeoil #4
> Kaspersky Firewall
Snakeoil #5
goarilla
just out of curiousity (sorry for the spelling)
how exactly: renaming executables to allowed executable names,
surf by IP, ...
> Yours,
> VB.
Volker Birk
>> Or that it's completely useless with it's "outbound filtering", because
>> one can trick it in minutes?
> just out of curiousity (sorry for the spelling)
> how exactly: renaming executables to allowed executable names,
> surf by IP, ...
I wrote POC code some time ago; you can find the source on
http://www.dingens.org/breakout.c and
http://www.dingens.org/breakout-wp.cpp