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Personal Fire Walls.

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by andarek

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Pros and cons for personal fire wall:
1. Zone Alarm Pro,
2. Black Ice Defender

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by fossil

I put ZoneAlarm -- the freebie -- on about a month ago on my home machine (Win98SE) that's connected via cable modem. Set was painless. Since the machine is used by the entire family, I went through the 10 or so applications that are used (IE, Netscape, BearShare, MYNapster, Outlook,AOL, WSftp, VPN software, etc.) to assure they'd operate properly. All did. I was amazed to see the amount of traffic comming directly to my machine. At least one per minute. It convinced me i'd been foolish to not have it running earlier. Within a week I upgraded to the Pro version. I've had no problems.

by b_pope

I use ZONE ALARM PRO & I'll never run a computer without it.
It not only stops incoming but outgoing as well, nobody else does this.
At last count I had 90+ programs on my PC listed on the ZONE ALERM program list.
These are programs that have tried to access the internet from my PC, if ZONE ALARM wasen't installed they would accessed the internet without my knowledge.
Thier are no CONS as far as I'm concerned, your crazy not to run one

by b_pope

also a mistake I've found many to make when running ZONE ALARM is to allow programs to act as a server. the only time I've ever had to allow this is when using a filesharing program.
EXPLORER,NORTON,OUTLOOK "NEVER" need to act as a server.
your computer isn't a server, your internet provider is the server.

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