, July 28, 2000 5:05 PM
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Subject: RE: Home Network Security
Anyone care to add WHY they think Zone Alarm is better?
Zone Alarm is new, and is freeware. BlackIce is established and is well
documented.
I would honestly love to hear the pros and cons between
This is a really hard question to answer, especially when I work for one of
them.
It really depends on your definition of a personal firewall/IDS product.
The definition has been discussed in previous posts, Please refer to the
Firewalls Mailing archive, since this discussion has been
The problem is not always the product itself. There are updates, service,
support and alike. This of great importance when the threats change from
day to day. I would prefer a commercial product from a free one when we are
talking about fees under 100 dollars.
What strikes me as odd is that
There are only to reasons to pick ZoneAlarm over BlackIce.
1. Its free!
2. It is so easy to set it up a Monkey could do it.
These are terrible reasons to do anything!
I don't like any windows-based fw/id products because they all hack the
operating system, and still depend on the
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Currier
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:29 PM
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"Mail @ faithinchaos.com" wrote:
Anyone care to add WHY they think Zone Alarm is better?
I really can't believe someone would suggest "free" and "easy to set it up"
as reasons to use a certain firewall over another. Free and easy to use are
good reasons to pick an office suite, but not a firewall. You should be more
concerned it's security features.
My home "firewall" is basically
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Anyone care
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I too, I found in my testing and playing around that the BlackICE
product is
nice. But, the
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I second this...
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On 7/26/2000 at 5:29 PM Carric Dooley wrote:
Zone Alarm is better.. and free for home use. =)
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"Mail @ faithinchaos.com" wrote:
Anyone care to add WHY they think Zone Alarm is better?
Zone Alarm is new, and is freeware. BlackIce is established and is well
documented.
I would honestly love to hear the pros and cons between the two products.
There are only to reasons to pick
have never used Zone Alarm, so I have nothing to base basic
product functionality against.
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I second this...
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On 7/26/2000 at 5:29 PM Carric Dooley wrote:
Zone Alarm is better.. and free for home use. =)
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From: "Russell Nomer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello,
What do you all recommend for a good home security firewall?
I have hear of Black Ice and Zonealarm.
I am hooking up 3 PCs to a cable modem connection in a home for a
friend.
What issues should I be aware concerning security.
How would I block netbeui from being broadcast out
IPChains just might be a better idea ...
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:43 PM
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Subject: RE: Home Network Security
Black Ice is excellent
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Zone Alarm is better.. and free for home use. =)
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From: "Russell Nomer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:43 PM
Subject: RE: Home Network Security
Black Ice is excellent
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
What do you all recommend for a good home security firewall?
I have hear of Black Ice and Zonealarm.
That depends on which operating system you will be installing on the
machine that will act as the router and, of course, how it is going to
be used. What
I'm using the Linux Router Project's router-on-a-floppy (including
firewall) system (http://www.linuxrouter.org) for my cablemodem. The
latest version (Eiger) is very well put together.
Wyatt
"Jarmoc, Jeff" wrote:
Even better than either of those (in my mind) would be a linux/BSD box with
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