'Firewalls'

Conyngham from the windy city -

What is the best firewall to use these days? I am using the Windows firewall built into XP, but my Nortons security package offers theirs as the better alternative. Don't know which one to disable as I assume it is not a good idea to have 2 competing with each other on the same system.

Comment #1 Kings from parallel street -

I used ZoneAlarm, which was free, for years, but gradually found that it just wasn't doing the job. I now use the one built into my Norton Internet Security package and find it to does the job well. I don't enable the Windows one as there could be conflict.

Comment #2 Jenna from A highly secure location -

Kerio personal firewall was very good, but I don't know if it's free anymore. I read up in PC magazine the other day about a great free one but I've forgotten what it was called. I'll have to look it up but you could do a search on pcmag.com for free firewall and see if it comes up.

Comment #3 Jess from New York -

The built in Windows firewall is pretty decent as well. I can't speak for Vista, I hear that's very powerful but VERY annoying. I do think Windows is sufficient for incoming. It's the outgoing that is more of a concern but that's more of a luxury than a necessity at least for me.

Comment #4 Keter from the garage door -

I used the Windows firewall until I installed the Norton's Security Suite, and I then changed to Norton's firewall which is excellent. For a while I left both enabled until I read an article online that this could lead to potential conflicts. Zone Alarm used to be very effective in earlier iterations, but later versions seemed to cause endless hassles for some people I know. Each system is different though, so one shouldn't generalize.

Comment #5 Elroy from New York -

Here is my problem with Norton. New computer with windows xp, norton preinstalled. I didn't touch the configuration.

When I ftp a large number of photos with wsftp, norton keeps stopping the transfer and popping up a window that a worm is active.

I tell it to ignore the problem and check the box asking not to be annoying by such crap in the future. Yet, I have to babysit the wsftp transfer because nortion pops up every 30 seconds or so to stop this vicious worm (my uploading of my photos).

Comment #6 fla_spa (118.136.70.60) -

Hi all,

if you lost your password after unset admin hardware reset and unset admin device reset there is no way out unless send your device back to Juniper and you must pay around $150.

I have a solution for you to reset your device without sending back to juniper and lost you money.

U need have a driver to short PIN and console to see a screen massage.

U can download PIN Picture at rapidshare

110102693 / NetScreen_NS-5xt.pdf

first restart your device and you will see.

NetScreen NS-5XT/5XE Boot Loader Version 1.2.0 (Checksum: xxx)

Copyright (c) 1997-2002 NetScreen Technologies, Inc.

Total physical memory: 64MB

Test - Pass

Initialization - Done

Model Number: NS-5XT

Hit any key to run loader

Hit any key to run loader

Hit any key to run loader

Hit any key to run loader

Load image from on-board flash...

Ignore image authentication!

Start loading...

.................

.

Done.

*************

Now short pin 19, 20, 21 and 22 with driver

*************

NetScreen Technologies, Inc

NS5XT/NS5XE System Software

Copyright, 1997-2003

Version 4.0.0a1.9

Load Manufacture Information ... init manufacture info Done

Load NVRAM Information ... (4.0)Done

Verify ACL register default value (at hw reset) ... Done

Verify ACL register read/write ... Done

Verify ACL rule read/write ... Done

Verify ACL rule search ... Done

MD5("a") = xxxxxxxxx

MD5("abc") = xxxxxxx

MD5("message digest") = xxxx

Verify DES register read/write ... Done

No work mode initialized, set to mode

Initial port mode trust-untrust(1)

**********

Release driver to un-short Pin 19, 20, 21

and 22 and wait until the login banner appear

**********

Install modules (xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) ... done(62)

fips test start

DSA self test: generating 2 primes ...

fips test end.

load dns table . Done

********

System time: 28 June 2005 00:32:35

If this is the first-time system boot up,

Please use the "set clock" command to set system clock.

*****

login:

login:

login:

login: trust interface change state to Up

login: netscreen

password: netscreen

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