Peter Barker wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:30:35 am M Henri Day wrote:
2008/9/9 John Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
M Henri Day wrote:
2008/9/9 Mike Fridley, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey,
I'm kind of intermediate when it comes to security software, but the
free AVG suite I have from Grisoft has done a perfect job at
everything....
Hope that helps
Mike Fridley, USA
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Mike, on the relevant AVG webpage, prospective users are informed that
neither AVG Free nor AVG Anti-Virus Pro (at € 34.49 per annum) provide a
firewall. One is, however, provided by AVG Internet Security, which
costs €
51.74 per annum....
Henri
To All: If you are using Linux, what firewall is recommended, since AVG
is, as far as I know, not available for Linux? Secondly, Windows has a
firewall of its own, thirdly, there is a pretty good one called Escan
from MWTI.com, which is NOT free, but pretty reasonable. :-)
--
Old Sarge-John Boyle
Old Sarge, Ubuntu, to take the Linux version with which I have some little
familiarity, provides a Gnome firewall, «Lokkit» and a KDE counterpart,
«Guarddog», both of which are included in the standard repositories and can
be installed from Synaptic. I've no experience with either, however, as
I've never felt the need for a firewall on my Ubuntu setup. Perhaps someone
else here has used these or other Linux firewalls (of which there are a
plethora) ?...
As for firewalls for Windows, the free Comodo Firewall Pro has performed to
my complete satisfaction on Vista. Unlike in the case of antivirus
programmes, where, e g, Shadowserver provides objective testing with daily
updates, I've never been able to find a website which provides objective
measurements of firewall performance....
Henri
I run Kubuntu, and use kmyfirewall because I could configure it to suit my
needs. I have another system which uses ipkungfu. They both seem to work
well, but I am not directly on the internet (I am behind a NAT bridge).
ipkungfu probably has a more automated setup. There are many others - when
you first install you are usually offered the choice of installing a
firewall, and your distribution's favourite one will be installed. shorewall
and fwbuilder both seem to popular. They all use iptables to make the actual
firewall.
Look at ShieldsUp on www.grc.com to test your firewall.
Peter Barker
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Using Ubuntu
I am using Firestarter. It seems adaquate
Rob
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