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Old October 31st, 2005, 04:15 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Best firewall?

Hello! What is the best FREE firewall there is?
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Old October 31st, 2005, 04:19 PM     #2 (permalink)
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the two i recommend are zone alarm and sygate. personally, i prefer sygate compared to za (easier interface for advanced stuff and it's more flexible....both paid versions are just as powerful but teh free version of zone alarm has been crippled compared to the free version of sygate links to both are on my site http://www.k-techcomputers.us/links.html sygate it a little hard to find..it's under home office i believe...but trust me....it's worth it .

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meh? i use zone alrm.

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Old October 31st, 2005, 04:33 PM     #4 (permalink)
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I've tried to dowload sygate, but the only thing i've come to when i try to download is a simtel website?
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Old October 31st, 2005, 04:40 PM     #5 (permalink)
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yup...now just click what server you want to download from in the list below you can pick one close to home so it downloads a little quicker
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Old October 31st, 2005, 09:22 PM     #6 (permalink)
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you guys talkin about sygate 5.5 or 5.6? i had terrible trouble with 5.6.
5.5 is great though possibly the best.
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Old November 1st, 2005, 01:41 PM     #7 (permalink)
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Iv'e tryed installing 5.5 but when I restarted the pc then nothing was on the desktop so I had to restart it again and access via my mom's user and uninstall it.

Therefore, ZoneAlarm it is.
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Old November 1st, 2005, 06:08 PM     #8 (permalink)
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Zone Alarm for me.
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Old November 1st, 2005, 06:42 PM     #9 (permalink)
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Are the NAT firewalls built into routers god enough to leave your computer without a software one?? Its a netgear wgr614.
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Old November 1st, 2005, 06:47 PM     #10 (permalink)
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Are the NAT firewalls built into routers god enough to leave your computer without a software one?? Its a netgear wgr614.
I want to know the answer to that one.
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