I hear Blackice is pretty good. I've used McAfee's firewall as well. They
both do a great job of blocking traffic. Unfortunately, on a development
server that caused me problems and I ended up passing on that idea. They're
more trouble than they're worth for me. Your situation may be different.
Blackice works on NT and 2000. McAfee is only for 95/98/ME.
Don't be fooled by the cable/dsl routers. The packaging is misleading.
Although network translation does provide a level of enhanced security since
the end user doesn't know the internal IP, a good hacker can still get
through the router and get to your machine.
However, if you find a cable/dsl router that has a built-in firewall (the
most expensive ones have a real firewall) you should be OK. If you're on a
modem, you have little to worry about to begin with. Blackice or McAffee
whould be sufficient in that case.
---mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tangorre, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:27 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Home Office Firewall
>
>
> Any ideas on home firewall software? I run a cold fusion server and ftp
> server from home so I can backup work, and work remotely and when I am at
> school and what not. What would be some good firewall protection to
> implemement on the server?
>
> Mike
>
>
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