Firewalls

[matt12685848]

I am currently using trend micro pccillin for my firewall and i dont like it, it uses 104 mb of my ram. Anyone know of a good firewall that uses little resources? How good is the default windows firewall?

 

[mmaki]

The default firewall in WindowsXP is better than nothing. More importantly, how do you connect to the Internet? Dial up or DSL/Cable modem? That will help determine the options you have.

 

[Computer Genius]

I use Zone Alarm and it is great.

 

[Motoxrdude]

ya get zonealarms. There free version is still great. uses something like 50mb of ram or less.

 

[jancz3rt]

Hmmm

My favorite firewall is KERIO PERSONAL FIREWALL - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

It's free and I prefer it to ZoneAlarm. However, I would give both a shot and then choose the one that suits you best.

JAN

 

[elmarcorulz]

I would recommend Sygate Personal Firewall. Again, its free and uses only 8MB of memory

 

[jancz3rt]

hmm

One thing to SPF:

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JAN

 

[elmarcorulz]

aww man.

 

[matt12685848]

Wow, Sygate uses 8 mb ram!!?? I will try that
EDIT: Oh, just read your post JAN.....

 

[matt12685848]

One thing i just noticed about my firewall, earlier i posted a thread of my ram bieng hogged up by windows and in that thread i realized how much ram my firewall was using. What i just noticed now is that after playing BF2 tmproxy went from using 104 mb ram to 3500 kb. Why isn't it just at 3500 kb at startup?

 

[kurra_t]

Zone Alarm is the best

 

[timothyb89]

Zone Alarm is good...
I use it on 2 of my computers. a comparison of Zone Alarm I found a wihle back .

It's a PDF file that can be found at http://www.grc.com/files/grcdos.pdf .
I found it to be rather intresting. Sticking to the topic, on pg. 26 of the PDF file, there is a compairson (sp?) between Zone Alarm (free) and BlackICE Defender ($39.95) and the results are surprizing.

 

[currentcomputert]

Just like they say XP's firewall is better than nothing but it is horrible.

 

[NeuromancerWGDD'U]

Ah, the Windows XP firewall. The speed-bump to the internet . I prefer BlackICE. Nothing gets past that sucker. It gets extra points for the reference, too.