Firewalls

[hoptop77]

how can you tell what firewall is good or bad?

[rossroad100]

im trying to download a wow patch but it says ur computer is behind a firewall.what does that mean

[m4airsoftmaster]

hey i have a few questions like do i use a crossover cable to connect the green NIC to the WAN port on my router

[WARCRAFT3own]

And one more thing is kaspersky's firewall good cause i use it

[WARCRAFT3own]

SO your telling me that windows firewal isnt good. I have had a shaw secure and its fine. And ddo router firewalls give you extra protection to your pc and other connect to it?

[whatatidymess]

right, I've got anther spare pc, but I don't really want to be running it, as it's just more cash for bills and more space, what hardware firewall would you recommend?

[whatatidymess]

~Hi, can I use my speare pc as a hardware firewall and a server at the same time?

[jasonthenerd]

I would not recommend it unless you just want a internal firewall for testing. Installing anything onto a box that is acting as the firewall is usually a bad idea.

[KurtisICT]

Comodo Firewall (in my opinion) is the gratest! It's freeware, and its one of the most powerful one out there (and it's proven on the actual site itself - AND third party).

[HelicalColossus]

ive used Sygate for the past few years. it is a software firewall though.its great but now i have vista and sygate isnt vista-compatible. right now im using avg's trial firewall. when it expires im thinkin about gettin Zone. do u recommend zone alarm over smoothwall(free version)?

question about antispyware tools: i have spybot and im going to also use either Ad-Aware or avg antispyware. which one do u recommend?

[jasonthenerd]

Smoothwall is better if you have an extra computer to turn into the firewall. Otherwise yeah zone alarm is good.

Ad-Aware is more comparable to spybot then AVG. So go with AVG if you have spybot already.

[HelicalColossus]

gotcha. thanks man

[vandamme77]

Hi jason,

This is a very useful video clip. By the way could you please tell me where can I find more notes, books or journals about smoothwall as I am doing my network security assignment on smoothwall. I hope you reply me back soon.

Thanks

[jasonthenerd]

Sorry but I don't think I know where anything super useful is. I would suggest just googling for some white papers.