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tad214

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« on: December 24, 2002, 11:08:46 AM »
hello,
does anyone have any suggestions to which is the best firewall on the market? at the time, i am useing zonealarm pro. it is ok, but it eats a lot of resources up. thanks in advance for any suggestions. i am just pacing back and forth trying to figure this out. DALE
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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2002, 06:05:16 AM »
There\'s never a best , because there\'s always better . Depends why you need it , what do you want to protect .
There will always be people getting around your firewall  . There are firewalls for every purse from freeware to very expensive firewalls for business purposes . The best firewall for you will be the firewall that you use a certain time and gives you satifaction because it doesn\'t interfere to much with other applications or fits best with your OS , or shows you it stopped some people getting nosy or wanting to put a trojan on your computer .
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2002, 03:30:50 PM »
I agree with rdc above,

But if you really want a good firewall i have always trusted hardware based firewalls such as a router or gateway. Another good option that i have heard of muyltiple times is to grab an old system, put linux or unix on there with two nics and turn that into your gateway.
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« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2002, 01:43:38 AM »
The above post is best..use a old computer.

Then run OpenBSD...you would pretty well off.
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« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2002, 07:09:14 PM »
http://www.freesco.org/ is quite a good option as is www.smoothwall.org


the fitrst is the better of the two in my oppinion but smoothwall is nice
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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2002, 04:51:09 AM »
I wont discus , the quality of using a linux computer for a firewall (probably a good idea), but do you really know, a guy asking for the best firewall knows something about linux .
And even  if he knows something about linux doesn\'t mean he necessary  knows how to setup a linux computer as a firewall .Take it from  me there\'s never a best , there\'s always better , and all this depends on the client ,on what he wants ,  can afford , or can handle . At least in my humble opinion .
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« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2004, 08:40:33 PM »
Go get a Netgear or Linksys router at best buy or what ever you have close (Comp USA ect) for $50.00 and have done with it.
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