Take a look at Tiny Personal Firewall as well, www.tinysoftware.com. It has some insteresting features that are not available on ZoneAlarm. Tiny is also free.
Rodrigo Randy Kramer wrote: >Robin wrote: > >>Firewall can only block ports but not program specific, i.e., if you >>block everything but leave web open, any web browser would work. If you >>really want to lock it down to one program, i.e. Netscape instead of IE, >>try something like Norton Personal Firewall. There are quite a few >>others out there, Zone Alarm and so on, but since I don't use them, I >>cannot comment on those. >> > >I think Zone Alarm does the same thing as Norton Personal Firewall. I >use Zone Alarm (the free personal edition -- not sure it's available >anymore) and it seems that I can block access by specific program. When >it finds a program trying to connect from my machine to the Internet, it >tells me the name of the program, it asks me if I want to allow that >specific program to access the Internet, and maintains a list of the >programs I have enabled to do so. (I can delete programs from that list >if I wish.) > >Not sure how incoming connections are handled because I use a NAT based >gateway which only allows incoming connections associated with an >outgoing request. > >Randy Kramer > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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