home hardware prices news articles forums photos user reviews
Go Back   Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com > PC Hardware and Tech > General Tech Discussion
Ask a Tech Support Question (free)!

Which Personal Firewall?

Reply
Get bargains at  »  Dealighted.com
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Currently Active Users: 1929
Discussions: 200,950, Posts: 2,379,437, Members: 246,311
Old May 9th, 2006, 11:04 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
Member
 
adam-red's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 105
Which Personal Firewall?

I want to start playing Freelancer online. Is it worth using a personal firewall like Zone Alarm or do you think I'm okay sticking with the built-in Windows XP firewall? Zone Alarm is just so bloody annoying.

Thanks
Adam
adam-red is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 9th, 2006, 11:50 AM     #2 (permalink)
Senior Member
 
buckaro's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 989
Either get ZA or Sygate, unfortunatly it is no longer updated for the free version but it works pretty well(im using currently only because the ZA beta's don't like my PC and i can't be bothered to finish a manual uninstal!)

ZA is the better of the two IMO, it does more and is quite regulary updated. The pro version is just amazing.
buckaro is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 9th, 2006, 11:57 AM     #3 (permalink)
It's the cheese guy! ¬_¬;
 
paul9's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Gateshead U.K.
Posts: 9,167
Send a message via MSN to paul9 Send a message via Yahoo to paul9
I played FL quite happily with ZA Basic. I only started using Sygate because of an issue trying to run DIMES distributed computing project. I haven't tried FL with Sygate yet, but do not expect any problems if I ever try it. My MMORPGS perform well with Sygate and ZA Basic.
paul9 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 9th, 2006, 12:26 PM     #4 (permalink)
Ultimate Member
 
zepper's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Finger Lakes area
Posts: 2,373
I also use Sygate with no problems. You can download it from http://www.majorgeeks.com or you can get it as part of a complete utilities suite that also includes Trend Antivirus (a version of PC-Cillin). That is VCom SystemSuite 6 (my fave Win utilities package). You can get that from Amazon for like $15. after rebate. That's one heck of a deal!

.bh.
__________________
"Our freedom depends on five boxes: soap, ballot, jury, witness; and, when all else fails, Ammo. " ?author?
zepper is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Sygate Personal Firewall...Uh-Oh! Painkiller Technical Support 4 March 5th, 2006 10:57 PM
Personal Firewall Software aldtech Applications and Operating Systems 11 June 7th, 2005 03:00 PM
Norton Personal Firewall Network67 Applications and Operating Systems 2 June 28th, 2004 11:37 PM
Sygate Personal Firewall? v-a-m Security and Privacy Issues 6 March 25th, 2003 09:17 AM
personal firewall suggestions bdog Security and Privacy Issues 10 March 7th, 2003 03:03 AM


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Most Active Discussions
The disrespect of Obama by Russian .. (33)
Making Health Care Worse (176)
Is It Just Me? (2940)
Wireless Televisions. (12)
windows 7 problem (7)
CPU fan stops spinning randomly (8)
Regular Build (7)
radeon x850xt platinum & shader.. (6)
Is the PSU I received dead? (12)
Print spooler problem (15)
HIS HD5770 graphic card question (15)
Install XP pro and a Vista laptop ?.. (11)
windows vista security holes (9)
Dept. of HS: NSA 'Helped' Develop V.. (15)
Recent Discussions
Internet Lost (2)
Point and Shoot Camera Suggestions. (4)
Regular Build (7)
Multiple Restarts Required at Boot (2)
Ideal cheap graph card for PC-Gaming? (18)
radeon x850xt platinum & shader 3 (6)
Graphics Card Upgrade Question (4)
For Sale BFG GTX285 OC2 with 10 year .. (3)
How to convert MP3's (4)
Wireless Televisions. (12)
Laptop with wireless problem. (2)
Hp Artist Edition + Matching Bag (0)
My monitor won't turn on after instal.. (0)
Asus P4G8X Mobo (6)
Xbox 360 GTA: SA disk error (1)
Is the PSU I received dead? (12)
windows 7 internet problem (5)
BSOD On Startup (ntoskrnl.exe) (2)
Print spooler problem (15)
Have you switched yet? (86)
screen resolution vs monitor size (2)
sms storage to PC (0)
Open With ..... Win7 (0)
java code for fibonacci (1)
[F@H SPAM 11/16/09] ! 1/2 months to r.. (35)


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:48 PM.
TechIMO Copyright 2009 All Enthusiast, Inc.



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28