[TriLUG] Windows Software Firewall Recommendations

[Brandon Newport]

Be careful, if you use Zone Alarm and install SP2 for XP you may have some
problems.  I have a couple of clients who had various problems until they
uninstalled ZoneAlarm.  Once again M$ does not play nice with everyone.

-b

Dave Sorenson (Dave at logicalgeek.com) wrote:
>
> I've had good experiences with the free version of zone alarm.
> www.zonelabs.com
>
> Dave S.
>
> > Hello everyone,
> > I know this is a Linux group primarily, but I do see some mention of
> > Windows occasionally so I thought I would get some opinions on a matter
> > I'm dealing with at work.
> >
> > We have a few Win2k machines out on the Internet - not behind a firewall
> > at all.  I could move them behind a more secure firewall in the future
> > but that would take allot of head butting with the developer.  Hopefully
> > in the future I can get the developer to move from windows tomcat to a
> > Linux lava servlet - but that would be impossible right now.
> >
> > The only current option is to use some software firewalls on each box.
> >
> > So, I would like to, by the end of the week, have several of our Win2k
> > boxes protected by a software firewall and I'm asking for
> > recommendations.  I know there are allot out there and most of them are
> > very resource intensive.  Sygate and our tomcat just didn't get along
> > for whatever reason in one trial.  I think the developer told me
> > something about high memory usage.
> >
> > So what do you guys recommend for software firewalls on windows boxes in
> > an enterprise type of environment?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Aaron Caudle
> > Netlert Communications/Softbase Systems
> > SPeeDSiN.NET
> >
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