Nightfire Forum

by **Mackan** on Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:53 am

Yes, I need another firewall, which ones are the best ones?

by **[OO9]** on Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:19 pm

I like these ones, Zonealarm, Norton and McAfee. I use Norton on my Games PC.

Zonealarm is free and very good though.

by **Mackan** on Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:56 pm

I liked ZoneAlarm too, but there is some conflict with my Anti-virus, F-Secure, so they cannot work togeather. They cannot even be installed if the other is there. I did use Agnitum Outpost for a while too and I was quite happy with it. On the other hand, I don't know what makes a good firewall, except it's keeping things out. Anyone know about this or anything else?

by **[OO9]** on Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:18 pm

These are the things I look for in a good firewall.

Hide ports.
Stop inbound and outbound unauthorised connections.
Easy to configure.
Good Customer service.

This site is good for testing firewalls http://grc.com/default.htm
ShieldsUp for testing inbound scans and probes
LeakTest for testing outbound connections.

XP firewall is good but fails the leak test
Norton is good but the Customer service is not too good.
McAfee has great Customer Service with online 24 support.

by **>DE< Lord Voldemort** on Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:51 am

The only good firewalls are Norton Internet Security 2005 one, they lock all the troyans and updates are free for 2 years

But Norton Anti-Virus 2005 sucks, it really sucks ... so if you need a good anti virus, look for Kasper Spy :hide:

by **Gotya** on Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:52 pm

what about the firewall of windows xp sp2?

by **[OO9]** on Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:56 am

_.+*CV~GotY@*+> wrote:what about the firewall of windows xp sp2?

Try the leak test here for it http://grc.com/default.htm
it will fail, well did when I tested it unless they have fixed it. Good for outbound though and if you have good virus software it will pick up any trojans that send things out anyway.

I have just tried the new McAfee one and did not like it, they have taken away a lot of the controls :sad:

.

by **Colonel Warner** on Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:05 pm

If you want a good firewall that costs money, I would recommend Armor2Net firewall. It does have a 30-day free trial, if you would like to test it out. Otherwise, you can just get a hardware firewall as an alternative to software firewalls.

by **rogue** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:48 am

comodo firewall free and the best

by **UltimateSniper** on Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:55 pm

Ive used McAfee for several years now... i agree wiv u 009 that the new 1 is bad... but sum guy sent me a link to this site which was packed full of trojans and viruses, i was foolish enough and hasty enough to click on it without thinking and thus got spammed with internet windows. McAfee got everything but there were still a lot of programs 2 shut down :grin:

Nightfire Forum

Firewalls, which ones are good?

Firewalls, which ones are good?

Who is online