personal firewall suggestions

I recommend ... reading the newsgroup archives. This question pops up frequently.

From your post I see, that you ARE using a firewall ... So, keep using it, unless you have something specific against it :)

TLis

Sygate has at least 2 major flaws that I know of. One, it doesn't handle proxy software properly at all. Two, it allows packets thru to listening ports without asking. Neither is any good for you and one would be best off with something else.

Hi TLis!

Mikaelsk is using Sygate. I can't understand why he is willing to move to any other firewall 8-|

Sygate is best, f. the rest :)

Med vänliga hälsningar: Sven-Olov Larsson

Continue using Sygate. Continue to learn how to set it up so you can "Block Everything You Don't Use". Casey

The Windows-Firewall.

Yours, VB.

Sygate has a big design flaw as a "Personal Firewall" - its system services are opening windows. This is a security breach, because this opens additional attack vectors, your system does not have with the Windows-Firewall instead.

Yours, VB.

Hi Volker!

Point taken! Maybe you are right, but a user friendly interface is never wrong. There are many "blueberries" (eng. beginners) out there.

Reegards:

Med vänliga hälsningar: Sven-Olov Larsson

What services are you referring to? OS services? C

This is not the point - UI is OK, but the windows of it should be created by user processes, which are communicating with the services via well defined IPC.

What Sygate is doing, is just the proof, that the Sygate developers don't understand the Windows security architecture at all.

Yours, VB.

*NIX people would say "daemons". Windows people say "services", if they're meaning processes, which are running with elevated rights (normally in the background).

Yours, VB.

It is a design flaw in a security system, if security depends on user's decisions in any way, but this would be avoidable.

Yours, VB.

Thak you for this information. I see what you mean.

Have a nice day :)

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