What's The Concensus On The NetVeda And Jetico Personal Fi..

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I'm getting bored with ZA and am curious as to what the group thinks
of these two products. If there's better freeware out there then by
all means chime in.

Cheers!

 

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In article <ha11i19r7oi18i3en990smj9qv82bgcsdu@4ax.com>, Beldar Conehead
says...
> I'm getting bored with ZA and am curious as to what the group thinks
> of these two products. If there's better freeware out there then by
> all means chime in.
>
> Cheers!

You will probably get a much better response if you ask your question in
the firewalls forum below:

http://wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31

Lot of people there who have tried both Jetico and Netveda and have
opinions on both. There's a huge Jetico thread as well. Good place for
discussion of software firewalls.

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Kerodo

 

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Beldar wrote:
> I'm getting bored with ZA and am curious as to what the group thinks
> of these two products.

Zonealarm cannot prevent spyware from sending your personal information
across the Internet; it failed in our tests together with the rest of the
"Personal Firewalls".

Zonealarm does not make a PC "invisible" or "stealth" in the Internet, as
this is not possible at all.

Zonealarm is vulnerable to the SelfDoS attack.

> If there's better freeware out there then by
> all means chime in.

Just use the Windows-Firewall.

Yours,
VB.
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deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"

 

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In article <43208777@news.uni-ulm.de>, bumens@dingens.org says...
> Just use the Windows-Firewall.

He didn't ask about the Windows Firewall - and show me any reputable
source that says the Windows Firewall is as good or better than
ZoneAlarm Firewall.

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<Beldar Conehead> wrote in message
news:ha11i19r7oi18i3en990smj9qv82bgcsdu@4ax.com...
> I'm getting bored with ZA and am curious as to what the group thinks
> of these two products. If there's better freeware out there then by
> all means chime in.

Consensus? In this group? LOL

Groups don't think. Individuals do. Usually differently.
Then there's the problem of not knowing your audience. Are they clueless
users or experienced security professionals? or neither?

I'll try to sober up now.

Jason

>
> Cheers!

 

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Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> writes:

> In article <43208777@news.uni-ulm.de>, bumens@dingens.org says...
>> Just use the Windows-Firewall.
>
> He didn't ask about the Windows Firewall - and show me any reputable
> source that says the Windows Firewall is as good or better than
> ZoneAlarm Firewall.

But this group is still about security, isn't it?

Maybe not the best analogy but I think also not a bad one:

If someone asks you: "I'd like to run a parcel service. What car would
you use for that job? A Ferrari or a Porsche?"

Your answer would be Ferrari or Porsche. Is it a good suggestion?
Think about it a minute or two...

cu,
Wolfgang

P.S.: One can't give a well-founded judgement about closed-source if
he doesn't see the source code. And AFAIK all windows firewalls
are closed source. Period.

 

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In article <uebr33dxff.fsf@miles.seekirchen.net>, wzwei@gmx.at says...
> Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> writes:
>
> > In article <43208777@news.uni-ulm.de>, bumens@dingens.org says...
> >> Just use the Windows-Firewall.
> >
> > He didn't ask about the Windows Firewall - and show me any reputable
> > source that says the Windows Firewall is as good or better than
> > ZoneAlarm Firewall.
>
> But this group is still about security, isn't it?
>
> Maybe not the best analogy but I think also not a bad one:
>
> If someone asks you: "I'd like to run a parcel service. What car would
> you use for that job? A Ferrari or a Porsche?"
>
> Your answer would be Ferrari or Porsche. Is it a good suggestion?
> Think about it a minute or two...

Yea, I understand, but suggesting that one use Windows Firewall over
ZoneAlarm (which blocks inbound and outbound) is just plain stupid. I
have the Windows Firewall Service disabled on my laptops and use Tiny on
them, Kerio use to be on a couple, and we've got a lot of residential
types that use ZA and ZAP. None of the are using Windows Firewall due to
it's limited ability to protect the OS and the users.

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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:38:10 -0700, Kerodo <loopback@localhost.com>
wrote:

>In article <ha11i19r7oi18i3en990smj9qv82bgcsdu@4ax.com>, Beldar Conehead
>says...
>> I'm getting bored with ZA and am curious as to what the group thinks
>> of these two products. If there's better freeware out there then by
>> all means chime in.
>>
>> Cheers!
>
>You will probably get a much better response if you ask your question in
>the firewalls forum below:
>
>http://wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31
>
>Lot of people there who have tried both Jetico and Netveda and have
>opinions on both. There's a huge Jetico thread as well. Good place for
>discussion of software firewalls.

Thanks very much.