Which (free) firewall runs as service

"Wim" wrote in news:4327d3d9$0$11061$ snipped-for-privacy@news.xsall.nl:

I would think any personal FW that runs on the NT based O/S such as XP will be running as a service with the exe being ran as the graphical User interface.

Duane :)

Volker Birk wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.uni-ulm.de:

You may be right but they still use a service applicaton at least the ones I have seen such as BlackIce, ZA, Sygate, Kerio even IPsec has a service component and others.

Duane :)

Hi all,

Which (free) firewall can be run as a service on Windows XP? In other words: which firewall is already active after powering on the pc but BEFORE logging into XP?

I tried Zonelalarm Pro 6.0, it runs as a service but because of an appearing bug it's no solution for me. Perhaps Sygate?

Thanks in advance!

You can supplement the XP FW with IPsec that can stop inbound or outbound traffic by port, protocol or IP.

You can implement the AnalogX Secpol rules and then learn from those rules. Ipsec using the AnalogX Secpol rules are blocking high ports on downloads. So you either disable Ipsec for the download or you learn to write the rules to open the required ports, which you can view what ports are being used with something like Active Ports (free).

Ipsec is very proerful.

Duane :)

I think, the Windows-Firewall.

Yours, VB.

Unfortunately you're not right.

BTW: the filtering software has to be a kernel module, if it should work correctly, not only a service.

Yours, VB.

Is it possible in the XP firewall to set the ip addresses 10.0.0.0 -

10.0.0.255 as "trusted" and block all other ip addresses?

Yes, see

Yours, VB.

Yes, Sygate Pro v5.5 b 2710 has a selectable feature "Block All Traffic While the Service is Not Loaded. I suppose Free Sygate v5.6 (still available) has that feature too. Casey