Is anyone familier with Sygate Personal Firewall, ver. 5.6 ?
It is free for home use.

I have been using ZoneAlarm for a long time, but the version
6.0.667 is not behaving properly on my gateway PC running
Win XP Pro, (although it works OK on the 2nd PC), I am
looking for another bi-polar firewall for the gateway PC.

Appreciate any comments.

"O Noah" <o_noah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uDHzM4xwFHA.1256@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Is anyone familier with Sygate Personal Firewall, ver. 5.6 ?
> It is free for home use.
>
> I have been using ZoneAlarm for a long time, but the version
> 6.0.667 is not behaving properly on my gateway PC running
> Win XP Pro, (although it works OK on the 2nd PC), I am
> looking for another bi-polar firewall for the gateway PC.
>
> Appreciate any comments.

I use Sygate at home, but I prefer ZoneAlarm. (I have two pcs, one with
ZoneAlarm and the other with Sygate.)

You say that ZoneAlarm isn't behaving properly. If you are using the pc as a
gateway - and by this I assume you mean that it has internet connection
sharing - then the personal/free version will block internet connection
sharing and you'll have to use the full version.

I don't know whether Sygate Personal Firewire exhibits the same behaviour.
Why not download it and see?

You might find that you'll get a better response if you try posting to
either comp.security.firewalls or alt.comp.network.firewalls, both of which
are newsgroups devoted to firewalls.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

"Brian Cryer" <brianc@127.0.0.1.activesol.co.uk> wrote in message news:rd6dnaedkLJJi6TeRVnyvw@pipex.net...
| "O Noah" <o_noah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| news:uDHzM4xwFHA.1256@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| > Is anyone familier with Sygate Personal Firewall, ver. 5.6 ?
| > It is free for home use.
| >
| > I have been using ZoneAlarm for a long time, but the version
| > 6.0.667 is not behaving properly on my gateway PC running
| > Win XP Pro, (although it works OK on the 2nd PC), I am
| > looking for another bi-polar firewall for the gateway PC.
| >
| > Appreciate any comments.
|
| I use Sygate at home, but I prefer ZoneAlarm. (I have two pcs, one with
| ZoneAlarm and the other with Sygate.)
|
| You say that ZoneAlarm isn't behaving properly. If you are using the pc as a
| gateway - and by this I assume you mean that it has internet connection
| sharing - then the personal/free version will block internet connection
| sharing and you'll have to use the full version.
|
| I don't know whether Sygate Personal Firewire exhibits the same behaviour.
| Why not download it and see?
|
| You might find that you'll get a better response if you try posting to
| either comp.security.firewalls or alt.comp.network.firewalls, both of which
| are newsgroups devoted to firewalls.
| --
| Brian Cryer
| www.cryer.co.uk/brian
|
|

Brian,

You are absolutely right. I am having the same problem with Zone Alarm.
I have been familier with ZoneAlarm since 2002, but recently they have changed
their policy, where the TCP/IP signal does not pass through the gateway PC
(in the free version). Although I was an avid customer for Zone Alarm for four
years, I cannot afford to pay now. That is why I am looking for an alternative.
The Sygate Personal version does behave well, but it is somewhat complicated to
setup. Infact, version 5.6 is working well. I am still looking for an easier one.
Thank you so much.

O Noah
..

Since you are using XP you already have a firewall. What you need is
a per-process traffic switch, see AppWall at

www.electronicscomputing.com


Good luck!
info@appwall@electronicscomputing.com

Thank you for the info. I am aware of the built-in XP firewall, but
I could not figure out any easy way, what it is blocking or what it did
allow to pass through.

I will definitely play with the AppWall firewall.
Thank you so much.

O Noah

<info@appwall@electronicscomputing@com> wrote in message news:OOfsuD7wFHA.2848@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| Since you are using XP you already have a firewall. What you need is
| a per-process traffic switch, see AppWall at
|
| www.electronicscomputing.com
|
|
| Good luck!
| info@appwall@electronicscomputing.com
|
|