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by quest4

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I'm on a quest for a firewall for mobile laptops, and I've tried all of the free ones and several for pay ones and none of them work. Here is the situation, all are running W2k Pro and when they are docked, on the LAN network, they use IE 5.5 through a DSL to connect to the Internet; when they are undocked, remote, usually in a hotel room, they use Netzer.com through a modem to access the Internet. The problem is that so far all of the firewalls get confussed and lock out access to either or both IE and Netzero and in one instance, it sent the laptop in an infinite loop and could not shut down. Any suggestions from mobile users on what they are using? With the advent of T-1 lines in hotels I don't relish sent my road warriors out with only AntiVirus protection.

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by quest4

Norton AntiVirus has a bug, it thinks Black Ice is a trojan horse. We have Norton Anti Virus. Norton has not fixed this problem and they are a were of it.

by qtzar

I also have to suggest BlackIce Defender as being the better option from all the personal firewalls available. It works on the Winsock level so it does not bind itself to any particular network adapter or modem.

If you AntiVirus software is giving a problem with the product then either exclude it from being scanned or change your AntiVirus software.

Other personal firewalls that you can look at are ZoneAlarm and as far as I know McAfee also have a personal firewall.

by quest4

Norton and Black Ice both warn about the bug on their web sites. ZoneAlarm was one of the worst ones that I tried, it sent my little laptop into an infinite loop when tring to shutdown and I had to crash it to get it to stop.

by wroming

Network ICE which is made by blackice company is one of the best firewall software packages for a laptop that I know of ...and if very easy to manage. You can download it from http://www.download.com and then just type network ice or just go throught the menu's and you can evaluwate it for 30 days before buying it.

by quest4

Maybe it is but Noton is going to attack it and treat it as if it were a trojan horse. Just look at the Black Ice web site.

by wroming

Why did you reject this. Are you looking for somthing that is free. Email me at wroming@ci.killeen.tx.us I am the network Admin here. If there are other possiblities that you are looking for we could figure somthing out. But network ice made by blackice is in my opinion your best bet.But email and let me know k

by qtzar

I really don't know why you are rejected BlackIce as being the best solution when clearly it is a problem with your AntiVirus software support. If you have a look at the following page on the Network Ice website there are full details on when the issue is and they verify that the detection of a trojan is clearly a false positive. http://advice.networkice.com/advice/Support/kb/q000207/

Personally if I had a antivirus package that was generating a false positive on a application and that it was not fixed with the next virus defs update ( and there have been plenty since the problem was first identified ) then I'd seriously consider looking at another antivirus package.

Don't reject Blackice Defender just because some other product has a problem with it.

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