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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I've always likes ZoneAlarm, but it's gotten to be such a pig lately. It takes up a lot of resources on the machine and is getting kind of slow with all the extra features they've been adding in. It's also become an excuse for ZoneLabs to send me regular e-mails asking me to buy extra products. The firewall I currently use is [url=http://brazilfw.com.br/forum/index.php]Brazil Firewall[/url]. It started life as [url=http://coyotelinux.com/]Coyote Linux[/url], but at some point the people supporting Coyote Linux decided to stop supporting the free version and the BrazilFW group took it over and are still supporting it. I've been using it for over eight years and have never had a problem with it. If does take an extra machine to use, because it acts as a router and firewall, but it gives you a lot of freedom to explore firewalls that you wouldn't get from using the MircoSoft firewall or ZoneAlarm on your Windows machine. This probably isn't the firewall you want to try to use for a customer who just wants a firewall for their Windows machine connected directly to the InterNET, but you might want to play around with it for your own uses and education. While looking at routers, modems, and external firewalls you might also want to check out [url=http://www.astaro.com/]Astaro[/url]. I haven't used it my self, but have heard a lot of good things about it. Another thing to look into is that most routers and modems these days come with their own built-in firewall. Often the firewall is turned on by default so before investing a lot of time and/or money adding a firewall to the Windows machine, check out the modem they are using to see if the firewall has been turned on. I haven't used Ubuntu, but all the Linux distributions I have used have a firewall built in through iptables, so you probably have a firewall on your machine without knowing it. . -- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful. [url=http://www.hyperbole-software.com/] [img]http://www.hyperbole-software.com/ozone/hyperbole-88x33.gif[/img] [/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/388]hyperbole[/url] on 03-08-2009 21:20)[/small] Loading...
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