Sygate firewall alternatives

Kerio 4 is very easy to use. That and ZoneAlarm are about the easiest.

Fortunately they have been discontinued.

Just use the Windows-Firewall.

Yours, VB.

Thanks Kerodo,

i think thah i go to try Kerio 4.

KRiss

I would not recommend Kerio 4. I had several blue screen errors with it. I went to Kerio 2.1.5, with a separate config file from BZ. It is working great so far.

VW

Kerio 2 is fine, as long as you don't mind that it let's fragmented packets thru without logging or asking.

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I'm still using it though.

Kerio isn't hard to use - at least the v4.x line isn't...

Do you know its security design flaws?

Yours, VB.

VB -

I don't know it's securitydesing flaws. Could you like them for me? Thank you.

Sygate opens ports on 0.0.0.0 itself. It makes the PC on which is running vulnerable to the SelfDoS attack. And it installs a system service, which opens windows. The latter is a bad security design flaw, which contravenes against Microsoft's design guide for system services, and can be abused for privilege elevation.

Sygate are showing this way, that they don't have a clue of designing secure software for Windows.

Yours, VB.

Thank you for taking the time to explain this issue. I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Better than nothing , yes. As always: quid pro quo: Give up a lot of autonomy on your PERSONAL computer, in return get a FW about which you don't know a whole lot, like what it lets pass through (all of MS traffic ?) .

Erik

If you don't trust Microsoft: don't use their operating system. Each personal firewall runs ON TOP OF WINDOWS, so if Microsoft wants to bypass a personal firewall, they will.

cu

You know as much as with any other non-open-source firewall: there is documentation, what exactly happens with the Windows-Firewall.

Of course, using a filtering software, you have the source code for, is a good idea. Especially, when you're using this on an OS, you have the source code for.

Yours, VB.