Personal firewall Products (Zone Alert)
Jon Carnes
jonc at HAHT.COM
Thu Apr 20 09:58:56 EDT 2000
Personal firewall ProductsSorry, It's "Zone Alarm" that I meant. I didn't follow up with a correction as someone else mentioned it...
http://www.zonelabs.com/
The product is really good, I use it at home. In the beginning it was a pain, because it was constantly throwing up warnings and asking if it should block this or that. But after a day or two of that you hardly ever see the pop-ups again.
A couple of interesting things (and some Kudos):
- It alerted me to some marketing bots that were running as add-ons inside my IE browser that were regularly reporting on my internet usage. I blocked those with Zone Alarm, and then sent off some nasty letters.
- Though I found the on-going pop-ups annoying for awhile, they make the setup very easy even for the lowest tech user. A lot of our folks use it on their home machines and they all seem to be able to handle the setup with ease.
- To get it to work with VPN software, you will need to go into Security settings and press the Advanced button. Add your VPN router as a trusted machine (or just add your entire external network presence), then add your internal IP ranges as trusted networks.
Hope this helps make up for my Alarm/Alert slip...
Jon Carnes
MIS - HAHT Software
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe M. Myrick
To: VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: Personal firewall Products (Zone Alert)
Jon-
Where can you download Zone Alert?
TIA, Joe...
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at HAHT.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:35 PM
To: VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: Re: Personal firewall Products
Zone Alert (which I'm using right now) is free and works quite well as a personal firewall.
I also recommend the hottest new product from Linksys. Their cable modem/DSL router/Switch costs about $160 and is a true wonder. It does basic firewalling/NAT and acts as a DHCP server for internal boxes. It supports up to 250 internal boxes. The router is also a 10/100Mb ethernet switch which has 4 internal connections and 1 WAN connection. We've put a few of these at some of our trouble sites. They are plug-in and Go! I just can't say enough good things about them.
Jon Carnes
MIS - HAHT Software
----- Original Message -----
From: Brown, Theresa
To: VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 8:19 AM
Subject: Personal firewall Products
I am attempting to evaluate low-end firewall products appropriate for home users with Cable or DSL modems. I have found very few in my searches. I have found Black Ice and a product from Sofaware (which I can't get any info on). The Black Ice product looks very promising, but I would like to look at others. I would appreciate any recommendations.
Kind Regards,
Theresa Brown
IT Security Engineering
972-927-8452
theresa at ti.com
Pager: 214-332-9058
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