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Originally Posted by Mal
I used to use sygate. I don't know if it was just that my computer was allergic to firewalls at that time, but it seemed crap. It was letting traffic out, when it said it blocked it!
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Strange - not seen any of that i have to say, what do you use now?
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Originally Posted by iadom
That is always assuming you trust Nortons own scanner, it fails to detect that I have any AV running when in fact I have a very good AV from Command/Authentium, have used it for over 8 years and never had an infection. BTW, I know you don't like ZA, but I do, it just needs a bit of tweaking, if you follow RDHW's excellent instructions you should have no problems,  |
Well, this all come down to how much you can trust anything really, im just using Norton as it does seem to be one of the best Firewall / AntiVirus scanners out there - most people complain about its footprint - not the fact that it lets the wrong stuff in or out. Norton Security Scanner, i assume could be on a similar level.
As for ZA, i have nothing against it other than the fact i have had problems with it in the past (and you yourself admitted it needed some tweaking) whereas Mal has had issues with Sygate and i have had to "tweak" Sygate as well to close a few more ports than are shut by default.
So it comes down to what monkeybreath says - personal preference - and as their both free, and this is a thread about free firewalls in particular then the more opinions and users of these firewalls who post the better informed we can all be about which one to choose.