Re: [Thinkpad] Any experience with Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6?

I aso need help with firewall software.

I use a home PC with wireless card and Thinkpad R51 connected peer-to-peer
with each other. PC is connected to the internet (DSL), and Thinkpad is
supposed to connect to the internet through the PC. It took me days to make
this work, I could share harddisks but not the interent. However,
god-knows-how but I managed to make my R51 reach the internet, PC being the
gateway.
The problem is, Zone Alarm Firewall on the PC will not let my Thinkpad go to
the internet so I have to kill Zone Alarm if I wanted to surf. I also tried
Outpost Free - the same thing happens.
Has anyone had any GOOD experience with this kind of home network setup?
What firewall is friendly enough?

Thanks,
Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Bell" <RobDBell@mailworks.org>
To: "Andrew in Ann Arbor" <aklist04@comcast.net>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Any experience with Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6?

> I'd highly recommend ISS's BlackICE PC Protection (see www.iss.net). It
> is a good PC firewall and it also includes their 'Application
> Protection' component which I feel is even more useful as a security
> product than a firewall. The PC Protection component scans your clean
> system to create a baseline of file names and checksums and then alerts
> you (and prevents action) when an unrecognized/modified executable
> attempts to run. This prevents all sorts of adware, spyware,
> silent-update, autorun, etc. types of security breaches. I've had
> multiple systems up without problems/infection/rebuilds for years in an
> always-on cable modem Internet environment where the wife and kids are
> using them and not always practicing safe browsing. For $39.95 this
> product is a no-brainer.
>
> The only caveat is that this does require some instruction to the users
> to understand what to do with the security pop-ups and how to
> re-baseline the system after a legitimate software install/upgrade. Not
> the best product for installing on a non-techie's PC and turning over to
> them without some guidance.
>
> Rob
>
> Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:
>
> > I've been having problems with my XP box in particular the blue screen
> > of death with the message:
> > PFN_List_corrupt
> >
> > Searching for this message specifically mentioned a conflict with Kerio
> > Personal Firewall.
> > So I unplugged the ethernet and removed Kerio and it hasn't crashed
> > since.
> > So if Kerio is the problem I need to find another firewall.
> >
> > I recently came across a recommendation for Sygate Personal Firewall
> > 5.6 and was wondering is anyone had anything to report abut it.
> > They've just been bought by Symantec so I don't expect any further
> > developement but you can still find copies online (TuCows for instance
> > <http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160>).
> >
> > Any other firewall suggestions?
> > I'm behind a router so I'm more concerned about being alerted when
> > something inside trues to contact the outside than about being pinged
> > by external machines.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Andrew in Ann Arbor
>
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