What Firewall do you Use/Recommend?

[Jeremy]

Although, it does score 99.4% on AV Comparatives... but so does Kaspersky. I won't be recommending this anti-virus to anyone.

[DSO]

I use an old version of Kerio (I do not think it exists as a personal free firewall anymore) in addition to the hardware firewall that comes with my router. I like to be able to control application behaviour. Kerio has a smaller footprint than the other software firewalls I have tried - Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm and Sygate, and is stable. I t only crashes if I try to open the GUI while running Azureus...

I read about Winpooch earlier in this thread, though. It seems like it might do the work just as well - I shall give it a try, and compare the two.

[_sergio_]

right now i'm using windows firewall but the best is winpooch if it is configured.

In two days i will reinstall windows xp with no firewall, no anti-virus and no anti-spyware. I will install them maybe a month later just to scan and see if my nLited system is immune to that kind of stuph.

This is because I removed IE, explorer.exe, some services, command line utilities and lots more. I'm will be using Opera as web browser, blackbox as shell and xplorer2lite as file manager. I think I will not need any Firewall/Anti-virus/anti-spyware.

[Jeremy]

My install is the same except I do use explorer.exe. I've tried several shells but have always come back to explorer since I'm old fashioned and just used to it. I don't like having to get used to navigating my PC as soon as Windows loads up.

[_sergio_]

My install is the same except I do use explorer.exe. I've tried several shells but have always come back to explorer since I'm old fashioned and just used to it.

you had any spyware/adware/virus/etc with that instalation???

and you use updates????

I want to have a system with no firewall/AV/anti-spyware because I only got 192ram and 500Mhz processor

and

I don't like having to get used to navigating my PC as soon as Windows loads up.

I don't understand this sentence... bad english

Edited September 10, 2006 by _sergio_

[DigeratiPrime]

I think that english was fine, maybe trouble translating it though

[Jeremy]

Malware/viruses, never.

Updates = RyanVM's Update Pack and AutoPatcher or Jcarle's WUD.

What I meant was, I don't like using other shells because I don't like having to get used to navigation of my PC all over again, when I can just use explorer.exe like I've been using for the past 12 years and know where to go.

Edited September 11, 2006 by Jeremy

[Zxian]

I've just moved to the security-less suite. No firewall, no AV. I've been running this way for a week now without problems. Outpost started giving me problems when I tried to connect to my university servers, so I went to nothing.

[_sergio_]

Now I understand. And it was MY bad english

I can't use RyanVM update pack because there is no portuguese version but i will try to extract some portuguese hotfixes and replace the files on my UACD for the ones in the hotfixes.

And thanks for the info Zxian. Tomorrow I will install it too. Just some final adjustments to reg files and applications. But there is one thing I don't understand: if Remote Registry, Telnet, and more things in XP are bad for security then why are they released? Didn't use Vista and I can't but are these services in Vista?

[Thunderbolt 2864]

I'm currently using BitDefender Internet Security Suite version 10. Problem is I can't get the parental controls working, though I enabled it.

[DigeratiPrime]

if you need good parental controls software for home use check out 'K9 web protection' its free and what i recommend.

[MGadAllah]

well, I reread this thread to determine which one is the best but I can not ans stiill say the same things since last post.

[uid0]

I've just moved to the security-less suite. No firewall, no AV. I've been running this way for a week now without problems.

I do the same on one of my machines, but it's one that I don't store data on, don't use for banking, etc. People who know what they're doing can get away with it, but as a mod I'm not sure you should be suggesting this is a good idea, without saying why. People new here might follow by example, and get in trouble.

[Maleko]

As stated b4, usign Sygate, but this is outdated now, as they wer etaken over by symantec...booo...so im currently testing Outpost, and liking it.

[MGadAllah]

im currently testing Outpost, and liking it.

can you post later on your setting for best performance?