Zonealarm Or Norton Personal Firewall?

[clocker]

I prefer ZoneAlarmPro, but I'm a lazy knob.
ZA is easy and so far it's done the job.
If I wanted a high maintenence, hard to figure out program I'd get a wife.

[ghost944]

i like sygate a lot but i uninstalled it and am trying zonealarm pro and i dont like it but i willl keep it on and see if i learn to love it

[MetroStars]

ok in my opinion Zone Alarm is better than Norton..

But the best firewall is Sygate

[Illuminati]

Originally posted by MetroStars@13 July 2003 - 14:14
ok in my opinion Zone Alarm is better than Norton..

But the best firewall is Sygate

ZoneAlarm & Sygate have better reputations for firewalls than Norton & McAfee, and there's a simple reason for it - Firewalls are not anti-viruses.

Norton & McAfee are well-known for being some of the best antiviruses available (others can be arguably better, but forget about that right now - it isn't the point). The fact is that the ones which do the best jobs are those which stick to what they're good at - AFAIK Symantec started out its early years with an Antivirus and have stuck at it, and now the Antivirus is the most popular in the Norton range.

Probably the same with McAfee, but IMO both should just stick to one thing they specialise at and spend full-time developing it, because IMO they aren't doing it for firewalls and are being surpassed by ZoneAlarm & Sygate.

Sometimes specialisation is the key to effectiveness rather than diversity - Look at Yahoo to see what I mean

[Wizzandabe]

A firewall is only good if it protects you and lets you use apps. if you get a firewall and it dont let you do something, because it blocked it, then its no good, so there is no good or bad firewall. chose for your self, as there is only 1 good onefor you.

[MediaSlayer]

I read that zonealarm had some known vulnerability, since the article was written I think it was fixed and I also think it was the free version anyway(the paid versions supposedly didn't have it). Sygate is hard to configure but as they say, I you can't hang with the big dogs...... hehe ......stay on the porch.
It passes the time that's my point.

[abu_has_the_power]

ok
i'll check out sygate, but how do u add the ips that u want to block. for zonealarm, theres that xml thing where u copy and paste. but how do u do it for sygate. by ips, i mean like how peerguardian blocks out mpaa and riaa, and zonealarm can import the ips. but i'm not sure how to do it with sygate

[DarkBlizzard]

I recommend downloading Norton Personal Firewall off Download.com or Kazaa Lite and then getting a crack off a website for it....its a very good program. I dont think Zone Alarm is a good enough firewall. Go with Norton, I have the virus protecter and the firewall.

[MediaSlayer]

Abu I don't wanna spam the software forum(the forum is crazy tonight imho) so I'll give one final answer for the moment. I use soulseek and I don't share with people who are not on my list. There is little danger of the riaa because my list is small. I don't use kazaa as much as I use soulseek. When I do, I don't bother to protect myself from the riaa, I'm only concerned about hackers. I have no earthly idea how to use peer gaurdian with sygate, I have never used peer gaurdian at all. Is there a way to block ip's? Yeah but better let someone else tell you as sygate makes my head spin. If I didn't mess with it for just one month I would probably forget all the settings and such(it can get complicated).

[abu_has_the_power]

to darkblizzard: i used to have norton personal firewall. but then i was told that zonealarm and sygate were better. now i'm using zonealarm, and it's pretty good so far. and then people tell me sygate is better, but i didn't try it yet