I have limited experience with PC Firewalls but the nicest one I have seen
is the one that comes with Kaspersky anti virus. It appeared to be very
easy to configure and never seems to cause problems with legitimate
applications accessing the web. I do know that it does not meet your
requirements since it comes bundled with anti virus, although if I remember
correctly one could pick which of their bundled components to install at
install time.
Regards,
Nancy Kramer
At 03:22 PM 1/17/2006, Steven wrote:
I am looking at supplementing the Windows XP (Pro) SP2 Firewall with a
third party product on a bunch of Windows machines. I am trying to
determine what product to go with and wanted to solicit some opinions from
this mailing list. The four that I really come across and have used in
some cases are ZoneAlarm, Sygate, Norton, Kerio, and Tiny. My
understanding is that Norton has actually acquired Sygate and that the
Sygate Personal Firewall probably wouldn't be the best choice of these
now. With that in mind I am looking for a product that easy to setup,
easy to use, works well, and does not take up too much in terms of system
resources or harddrive space ( I also don't want it to add 20 minutes to
the boot process either).
I am not looking for e-mail protection, anitivrus, or any other
non-firewall type services to be included. I do however want it to be
able to manage applications and their internet usage. (i.e. if they
install something new that tries to access the web (trojans included) they
will get a popup telling them something is doing this).
Any suggestions and opinions on the above products and any others that I
might not have mentioned are welcomed.
Also -- on top of this if someone knows of software/hardware that can scan
these machines and verify whether or not both the SP2 FW and/or the 3rd
part FW -- and perhaps prevent them network access if they are not running --
please let me know. [I am not sure what security products have these
capabilities]
Thanks
Steven
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