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Firewall Software

Started by Evil Bill Feb 14, 2003 at 10:39 AM 7 replies 200+ views

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Feb 14, 2003 at 10:39 AM

Can anyone recommend some deacent firewall software? It has to be free, and preferably powerful. I don''t mind how difficult it is to use. Either i find some deacent softwarem, or i go back to Linux... Also, does anyone know of any software (probably part of some firewall software) that lets you redirect traffic? E.g. pipe incomming TCP on port 23 to 192.168.0.2 on port 1337? Just out of curiosity for this though. Also also, Anyone know about writing your own firewall software? I assume this would mean writing various low level drivers and stuff though. Thanks for any replies

Mr Saturn

Feb 14, 2003 at 11:00 AM

Zone Alarm is the best software firewall you can get, and it is free, unless you want the pro version.

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Also, does anyone know of any software (probably part of some firewall software) that lets you redirect traffic? E.g. pipe incomming TCP on port 23 to 192.168.0.2 on port 1337? Just out of curiosity for this though.

I think you mean port forwarding. Zone Alarm Pro can do this, as well as hardware firewalls like NetGear.

Evil Bill

Feb 14, 2003 at 11:01 AM

Cool, i''ll take a look at Zone Alarm. Thanks.

Monder

Feb 14, 2003 at 11:01 AM

Zone alarm at www.zonelabs.com (Not quite sure adress is right) is pretty good. It blocks net traffic based on what program doing it as opposed to what port it's on. When a program trys to become a server or trys to connect to the net it gives you a dialouge box where you can choose what to do.

[edit] Mr.Saturn beat me to it[/edit]

[edited by - Monder on February 14, 2003 12:02:57 PM]

Extrarius

Feb 14, 2003 at 11:02 AM

ZoneAlarm is a nice firewall, except that on some PCs it causes random reboots. The problem seems limited to Win2k and XP. If it weren''t for that I would definitely run it.

Monder

Feb 14, 2003 at 11:04 AM

I run zone alarm on XP Pro and it doesn''t cause any trouble. My dad uses zone alarm on 2000 and it doesn''t cause any trouble there either

The Heretic

Feb 14, 2003 at 11:11 AM

I would buy a router... I use mine like that... Just make sure it''s programmable. I also use firewalls on my comps so I can''t be attacked on my internal network... I would recommened you use both...

Evil Bill

Feb 14, 2003 at 11:34 AM

Thanks, Zone Alarm seems to be working fine.

Anyone know about writing your own software? Will that involve loads of low level stuff? I noticed that ZA didn''t need to restart the computer, which makes me think that theres nothing too substantial going on at a low level.

Thanks for all the replies

Evil Bill

Feb 15, 2003 at 11:13 AM

*Bump*

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