I played with Zone Alarm and a few other personal firewalls. So far, I
like the Axent personal firewall that is tied in with their VPN client. I
don't know if they will be offering this as a separate home firewall or
not.
Some of the features I liked was that it was not intrusive to the end user.
Zone Alarm gives the user choices every time you initiate a new type of
traffic and for end users that might not know what they say yes or no to,
this may not be the best idea. The Axent one lets you add/remove allowed
ports.
The only way you would know if you were scanned was to look at the logfile,
so this can be good or bad. A lot of end users would just like to know
that their connection is secure and not have to look at information like
this or be bothered with an attempt that didn't affect them.
The logs are extensive and even did intrusion detection. It displayed the
TCP flags, IP addresses, ports, and even identified the scan I ran against
it which would be great for an end user to let their admin know they saw an
nmap or other scan.
It does report back open ports in the scan though. It looks very similar
to the raptor firewall, so it incorporates a lot of Axent's firewall
technology.
-Kathleen
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