Any good ?

markie mark · **Any good ? -** 07-25-2006, 20:04 | posts: 157

Im using NOD32 antivirus.
But i need a firewall and popup blocker in one. i was using Zonealarm before, but pain with some games. just started trying sunbelt/kerio personal firewall4 which has popup blocker.http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
Does anyone use is, is it any good. ? thanks

markie mark · 07-26-2006, 10:45 | posts: 157

Ok then, whats the best firewall to get

thanks

SmoKieMcPott · 07-26-2006, 12:13 | posts: 306

a hardware router

Dreamer8 · 07-26-2006, 17:22 | posts: 30 | Location: Slovakia

Quote:

Originally Posted by markie mark

just started trying sunbelt/kerio personal firewall4 which has popup blocker.http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
Does anyone use is, is it any good. ? thanks

Yes, it's one of the best, maybe the best, I use it about one year and don't have any problem with it.

BTW - popup blocker should be in your browser...

Great web browser is Avant Browser (IE engine) and Orca Browser (Gecko engine) - both free, Orca is still not final version, but author plan new Avant and then Orca soon...

Orca can be found only in Avat B. forum - http://forum.avantbrowser.com/ .

Mr_ALLroy · 07-27-2006, 00:02 | posts: 1,644 | Location: Calgary Canada®

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmoKieMcPott

a hardware router

I second that. I never have used a firewall with my router and have never had any problems.

SmoKieMcPott · 07-27-2006, 00:06 | posts: 306

firefox contains pop up blocker, opera contains pop up blocker and IE contains it as of SP2

there is no reason for another pop up blocker

as for a firewall... you either have one built into windows or as i stated before, use a ROUTER...that will be the best firewall

Animatrix · 07-27-2006, 00:09 | posts: 6,852 | Location: Denmark

Kerio has people speaking both for and against it.

The original personal version is pretty popular despite it being fairly old. The WinRoute version was never very popular.

Sunbelts version despite it being worked on and bugs get corrected, i get the feeling it's not quite as popular (yet) as the old Kerio for some reason.

My personal experience was very mixed the last time i tried it. It seem like a nice firewall, but it was crashing my system. That was some time ago and it's likely much better now. Anyway i know others had issues as well (BSOD's caused by their filter driver).

But if we are to trust matousec it's no good, but apparently non of the popular PF tested so far are. However it's been noted by many that their work methods are suspicious at best. Keeping your mind open but not getting fooled is a hard balance act.

http://www.matousec.com/
http://www.matousec.com/projects/win...is/results.php
http://www.matousec.com/projects/win...ewall-4.3.246/