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Postby ai » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:04 am

Ok folks.. I need to update my firewall for windows. Any recommendations? As an antivirus prog I use NOD32. I know Avast and AVG are also some good ones but to my knowledge they don't have firewalls. I currently use Sygate but wanna switch as according to morfar they haven't updated that prog for years and that might not be a good thing ;)
I don't know that many firewalls and some say ZoneAlarm is good some say it's bad. Buuut, what do you use and think are good ones?

Soo.. let em rippppp!
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Postby Daedalus » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:19 am

Bitdefender is pretty good imo
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Postby Oblivion » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:17 am

Comodo Firewall. its free and clean. :P
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Postby Xeno » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:23 am

I like ZoneAlarm. It's a bit of a bitch to train in the beginning, but if you know what you're doing, it doesn't take long, and it feels like you have a fair amount of control, both over what comes in and what goes out. The people who bitch about ZA pop-ups all the time must not know how to configure the program.
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Postby ai » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:20 pm

I've installed ZoneAlarm to try it out. I'll see how I like it. It seems ok when watching that video tut they show in the beginning.
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Postby :) » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:14 pm

I use wipfw
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Postby FruitieX » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:06 pm

I use Linux.
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Postby ai » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:30 pm

FruitieX wrote:I use Linux.

I've heard about Linux, is it good? Does it stop all viruses and spyware? I've also heard that it doesn't support multi scanning of computers like ZoneAlarm does, but that might have just been my sources.
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Postby ai » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:10 pm

Ok forget it, I will kiss ZA goodbye that crazy prog. Everytime I open a new program that requires any kind of openGL or 3D support the whole computer freezes cause ZA SHOULD give me a popup saying if I want to allow it or not... but it never comes and when I want to open the taskmanager it never shows. The computer literally freezes, only the mouse moves but nothing I click on works.

Crazy shit program. I hereby am one of those people who hate ZA :) So, what else of firewalls are there?
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Postby Psychcf » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:35 pm

ai wrote:The computer literally freezes, only the mouse moves but nothing I click on works.


hardware firewalls FTW
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