software firewalls

Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
scrap ZA on her pc ?

In article <>, RnR says...
> Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
> scrap ZA on her pc ?

Install a NAT Router between her computer and the internet device,
install quality AV software, enable the minimal Windows XP firewall, and
remove any soft firewalls other than Windows Firewall - making sure to
disable file/printer sharing, remove any exceptions, etc...


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On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:29:31 GMT, Leythos <> wrote:

>In article <>, RnR says...
>> Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
>> scrap ZA on her pc ?
>
>Install a NAT Router between her computer and the internet device,
>install quality AV software, enable the minimal Windows XP firewall, and
>remove any soft firewalls other than Windows Firewall - making sure to
>disable file/printer sharing, remove any exceptions, etc...


Thanks but I don't want to use XP firewall because it doesn't protect
outgoing packets. The router is already in place but it too does the
same thing as XP.

Thanks tho for the reply.

> >In article <>, RnR says...
> >> Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
> >> scrap ZA on her pc ?
> Thanks but I don't want to use XP firewall because it doesn't protect
> outgoing packets. The router is already in place but it too does the
> same thing as XP.

Ignore her - it does a decent job :-)

Otherwise, try Kerio... there`s another one called Jetico which once got
very good reviews, but I haven`t heard much since they released a new
version (its another free one)

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:16:42 -0000, Colin Wilson <>
wrote:

>> >In article <>, RnR says...
>> >> Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
>> >> scrap ZA on her pc ?
>> Thanks but I don't want to use XP firewall because it doesn't protect
>> outgoing packets. The router is already in place but it too does the
>> same thing as XP.
>
>Ignore her - it does a decent job :-)
>

thanks. Yeah I agree with you but I think she is getting annoyed by
the pop up warnings. Personally I like ZA.

> thanks. Yeah I agree with you but I think she is getting annoyed by
> the pop up warnings. Personally I like ZA.

How old is she ? - does she know what spyware can do to a machine ?

If she has any college / school work on there she really doesn't want to
lose, try pointing out that with the exception of hardware failure,
she's safer with than without it :-}

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:29:14 -0600, RnR wrote:

>Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
>scrap ZA on her pc ?

I used to use ZA and now use McAfee. They seem similar but there are
times I want to shut down the firewall entirely, and I can't figure
out how to do it in McAfee.

Why doesn't she like ZA?

In article <>, RnR says...
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:29:31 GMT, Leythos <> wrote:
>
> >In article <>, RnR says...
> >> Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
> >> scrap ZA on her pc ?
> >
> >Install a NAT Router between her computer and the internet device,
> >install quality AV software, enable the minimal Windows XP firewall, and
> >remove any soft firewalls other than Windows Firewall - making sure to
> >disable file/printer sharing, remove any exceptions, etc...
>
>
> Thanks but I don't want to use XP firewall because it doesn't protect
> outgoing packets. The router is already in place but it too does the
> same thing as XP.
>
> Thanks tho for the reply.

Actually, many routers, the ones that are close to being real firewalls,
can block by port in the outbound direction, can also filter content out
of http sessions....

Not all routers are as limited as the XP Firewall.

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You're a master of the understatement. NOTHING is as limited as the Windows
firewall, unless "no firewall" is to be considered a firewall... Ben Myers

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:21:47 GMT, Leythos <> wrote:

>In article <>, RnR says...
>> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:29:31 GMT, Leythos <> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <>, RnR says...
>> >> Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
>> >> scrap ZA on her pc ?
>> >
>> >Install a NAT Router between her computer and the internet device,
>> >install quality AV software, enable the minimal Windows XP firewall, and
>> >remove any soft firewalls other than Windows Firewall - making sure to
>> >disable file/printer sharing, remove any exceptions, etc...
>>
>>
>> Thanks but I don't want to use XP firewall because it doesn't protect
>> outgoing packets. The router is already in place but it too does the
>> same thing as XP.
>>
>> Thanks tho for the reply.
>
>Actually, many routers, the ones that are close to being real firewalls,
>can block by port in the outbound direction, can also filter content out
>of http sessions....
>
>Not all routers are as limited as the XP Firewall.

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:19:30 -0600, journey <> wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:29:14 -0600, RnR wrote:
>
>>Any good firewalls in place of Zone Alarm? My daughter wants me to
>>scrap ZA on her pc ?
>
>I used to use ZA and now use McAfee. They seem similar but there are
>times I want to shut down the firewall entirely, and I can't figure
>out how to do it in McAfee.
>
>Why doesn't she like ZA?


I haven't asked her but will. My guess is the pop up warnings. I use
ZA also and get annoyed with all the pop ups but at least I know it's
doing its job.