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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
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 Posted - 18 November 2004 : 02:48:54
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Can anyone here recommend me a good free firewall, that runs on Windows 2000 ?
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 18 November 2004 : 03:11:54
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| you could use TCPIP filtering on your network card if all you want to do is have everything locked down with just a few open ports. |
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Da_Stimulator
DEV Team Forum Moderator
USA
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 18 November 2004 : 03:47:05
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Huw, how is this done ?
Da Stimulator, I will try it. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 18 November 2004 : 04:02:11
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Configuring TCP/IP Security
To configure TCP/IP security:
1)Click Start, point to Control Panel, point to Network Connections, and then click the local area connection that you want to configure.
2)In the Connection Status dialog box, click Properties.
3)Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
4)In the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Advanced.
5)Click Options.
6)Under Optional settings, click TCP/IP filtering, and then click Properties.
7)Click to select the Enable TCP/IP Filtering (All adapters) check box.
Note When you select this check box, you enable filtering for all adapters, but you configure the filters individually for each adapter. The same filters do not apply to all adapters.
8)In the TCP/IP Filtering dialog box, there are three sections where you can configure filtering for TCP ports, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports, and Internet protocols. For each section, configure the security settings that are appropriate for your computer.
Note When Permit All is activated, you permit all packets for TCP or UDP traffic. Permit Only allows you to permit only selected TCP or UDP traffic by adding the allowed ports. To specify the ports, you use the Add button. To block all UDP or TCP traffic, click Permit Only but do not add any port numbers in the UDP Ports column or TCP Ports column. You cannot block UDP or TCP traffic by selecting Permit Only for IP Protocols and excluding IP protocols 6 and 17.
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 18 November 2004 : 04:54:11
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Tiny Personal Firewall beats zonealarm in my book though, and the free version works on w2k just fine
http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?la=EN is the payfor homepage, and you may have to google the free version as it doesn't seem to be offered by tinysoftware any more.
hth
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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tribaliztic
Senior Member
Sweden
1532 Posts |
Posted - 18 November 2004 : 05:55:54
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I've had problems with ZA. Computer freeze and dropping network connections. I use Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) in a separate PC (an old 386 hehe) and have never had any problems.
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homeacademy
Junior Member
USA
163 Posts |
Posted - 18 November 2004 : 08:27:02
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| Zone Alarm doesn't work for me either, messes up my home network configuration. I personally use Norton Personal Firewall (which is not free) but have also used Kerio Personal Firewall in the past. It is free (or at least was last time I checked) and seemed to go a good job. Do a search and see. They have upgraded the versions and I don't think the newest one is very good (they took some functionality away to put in the paid version) but I have a "completely free" version that is older. If you'd like it i'll share... |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 18 November 2004 : 10:36:51
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Originally posted by pdrg
Tiny Personal Firewall beats zonealarm in my book though, and the free version works on w2k just fine
http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?la=EN is the payfor homepage, and you may have to google the free version as it doesn't seem to be offered by tinysoftware any more.
hth
Tiny doesn't have a free version anymore, I believe they sold it to Kerio which is the same exact product, but they made it so you can export your filters. I would recommend Tiny (if they still had their free product) or Kerio for certain.
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
6493 Posts |
Posted - 18 November 2004 : 16:39:08
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ZoneAlarm works ok for me. One recent release screwed up InterDev and a local IIS on XP, but it's fixed now.
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 18 November 2004 : 22:02:01
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| Server 2000 or workstation ? |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2004 : 11:09:31
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Workstation.
I installed Zonealarm on 2 PCs - seems to work fine, but I´m amazed about the activity on intrusion attempts. Both PCs are fully Windows updated and with the latest McAfee virus software installed. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2004 : 11:22:49
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| Most of them are not really intrusion attempts. Some people seem to like to run port scanners or such. There are few real intrusion attempts, at least that's what it looks like to me. |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2004 : 12:36:26
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One huge problem with it though.
I can´t run windowsupdate when the firewall is on. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2004 : 13:08:24
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You can, just allow windows update to connect to the Internet. I've always ran Windows Update without any problem whatsoever.
When Windows Update tries to connect, the firewall will ask you whether you allow the connection or not. Just say yes, just after checking the option to remember the decision, so that you won't be asked again. |
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