best firewall?

[Wombatwilson]

i used zone alarm and it works fine for me but i would suggest getting a hardware firewall

[ingouk]

cisco pix, checkpoint or ipcop, smoothwall on linux

[Paul Adams]

If this guy has the money to afford CheckPoint then I'd offer my services to do a personal installation

CheckPoint licencing is hellishly expensive, not for your your typical home user installation


A NAT router and any personal firewall that takes your fancy is sufficient for most home users.

The NAT protects your LAN from all unsolicited traffic, unless you explicitly give it a port forwarding rule to an internal server, or have a DMZ configured.

The personal firewall is to stop your machine talking OUT if you get any dodgy malware on there.

[aeonf242]

Pay for it! You know it's worth it.

[perryh73]

if configed right first time ZA is the biz but if u need custom rools the sygate gets my vote.
I run sygate on a seperate 2k pc with routing as well to protect my home net and its coolio.

[Dr. X]

Kerio Personal Firewall.

The code for Tiny Personal Firewall (which was free) has been updated into KPF. Admittedly I've not used it for any LAN stuff yet, but I'd advise you to give it a try before ZA, as it's been far less problematic and is still free for personal use.

http://www.kerio.com/

[Jayson]

i would have to say the same as a few people here get a sapre machine and put smoothwall or clarkconnect on both are good!

[Anddos]

thx m8 will check the kerio firewall out

[-=Sniper=-]

hi guys!

I know ZA is not the best but I've used it over a year now and have had no problems, then again I am using the PRO version maybe thats made a difference?