Which is better? ZoneAlarm, Kerio or Sygate?

davie23223 · 09-03-2006, 11:30 PM

which is better? ZoneAlarm, Kerio or Sygate?

PC eye · 09-04-2006, 12:12 AM

I tried the ZA free version(very limited) and took that off fast to go with the Jetico. So far I haven't had a chance to try the Kerio or Sygate while hearing better things about both over ZA. Another favored freeware is Comodo.

dave597 · 09-04-2006, 12:24 AM

i use za, never used the others before

RoveWolf · 09-04-2006, 12:59 AM

Kerio and Sygate are both definitely, from personal experience, better than Zone Alarm, so that cancels ZA out. As for which is the better of the two out of Kerio and Sygate, well, Sygate and Kerio are both brilliant firewalls but I would have to say that Kerio offers way more in the sense of configuring, information and settings. Although Sygate is just as good but not as hard to get used to. Right now I favour Sygate over Kerio.

**Praetor** · 09-08-2006, 06:07 AM

I dunno about Sygate, been awhile since I used it but I know for an absolute fact that you can set it up to run anal-retentive-white-listing mode

(and in the 3000+ rules-by-IP and counting)

09-03-2006, 11:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
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09-04-2006, 12:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
RoveWolf VIP Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: West Midlands, UK Age: 22 Posts: 1,261	Kerio and Sygate are both definitely, from personal experience, better than Zone Alarm, so that cancels ZA out. As for which is the better of the two out of Kerio and Sygate, well, Sygate and Kerio are both brilliant firewalls but I would have to say that Kerio offers way more in the sense of configuring, information and settings. Although Sygate is just as good but not as hard to get used to. Right now I favour Sygate over Kerio. __________________ Note: Formerly known as Breaks. Thermaltake VC3000BWS Armour Jr SuperMidi Tower - Black Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 V2 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 (PCI-E) Western Digital Caviar RE 160GB SATA-II 16MB Cache Enermax Noisetaker 535W EG565AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) Samsung 18x18 DVD+RW (Black)

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09-04-2006, 12:12 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,730	I tried the ZA free version(very limited) and took that off fast to go with the Jetico. So far I haven't had a chance to try the Kerio or Sygate while hearing better things about both over ZA. Another favored freeware is Comodo.

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