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freakyboy2003

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ZoneAlarm Pro3

I have been using Zone Alarm Pro for quite sometime and recently upgraded to version 3. Configuring it was easy, but I don't know whether it is protecting my computer or not. I did not select logging because I do not want anybody else at home to know where I had been. So, I don't know if Zone Alarm is doing the job or not. But since many posters are using 2 firewalls, I think I might install Kerio too. I hope these 2 firewalls will work fine together.


Another thing, these Firewalls will not protect our IP address from the Internet and local ISP. Can somebody please help me in how to hide the IP address from Local ISP and Internet??? Also, which software is available to hide the URL's from the Local ISP?? Any help in this will be appreciated. Thanks in Advance.
 
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ovi

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to freakyboy2003 :

1. you cannot hide your ip from your isp because your isp assigns you your ip.

2. to hide your ip from the internet you must use a proxy. if you don't know how to find an open/free proxy on the net you could use the proxomitron or a4proxy while proxomitron is rather hard to understand and configure so I'll not provide a link

3. if you use a proxy your isp will only see that you are connecting to the url of the proxy he will not know the urls the proxy is fetching for you except if he is suspecting you of illegal actions and is inspecting all your packets but if you're a standard user thats nonsense and anyway you can't hide anything definitely from your isp except if you encrypt it because anything you are sending to the internet travels through your isp.

hope that helped, cu
 
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freakyboy2003

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to ovi

Thanks for clearing the doubt. I was just wondering that if we can hide ourselves from the Internet hackers, we can also hide ourselves from the ISP........ anyway now I understand. Thanks.
 
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albedo039

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I tried Zonealarm and found that although it was good but it has also become too bulky. Tried that one called Look'n'Stop and I've never changed. New version 2.03 stops everything, both incoming and outgoing.
 
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USS

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Best FW?

Hello all,

Sygate Pro: FW (application level + "rulebased") + Intrusion detection engine
Very good at my opinion, passed all the test I did.
User firendly (even a beginner can use it), and advanced configuration can be done if wished, but then it requires some more knowledge.

ZoneAlarm: Fw only (application level + possibly "rulebased")
Very good at my opinion, but has a reputation to be slow (was not the case for me but I had a good and quite new and clean config when I tried version 3, otherwise I tested a lot version 2.6.362 which is not slow at all). Passed all the tests I did.
User friendly, can be configured in a advanced mode too, but in a quite disturbing way (because unusual) to people used to FWs.

Black Ice Defender: has a terrible history! An history full of bugs, and big leaks like the fact that it did not monitor Outgoing communications.
Was not a FW at all (except by editing some config files manually, which is not acceptable. And you could do that for Incoming communications only! Oh, yes, you had different security mode that changed the behavior of communications security, but it was still not a FW for sure: not "rulebased" nor an application FW), it was just an Intrusion detection tool.
It may have evolved, now, but I personally won't even give it another chance.
Anyway, if you want me to be frank, Black Ice will be discontinued, because ISS focusses its activitues on business, not on individuals. The business version already exists and is really an improvement from what I know: Real Secure Desktop Protector.

Norton Internet FW: I stopped to look at it because the way it evolved (family version,...). May be good, I don't know. But if it is still liek in the past: requires more knowledge than the others, is more like a real rulebased FW.

Tiny Personal FW: was crashing on my computer everytime I tried it, so I gave up. I know that some other people had betetr luck with it than I did :)

Look'n'stop: FW only, looks good, but did not look at it enough to have a relevant opinion. But it looks quite interesting.

Others: didn't look at them. But I looked at the comparison of FWs on the Agnitum Post web site, though: quite political too! lol I would not advice to base a choice accordingly to that page only! :)
 
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USS

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Look'n'stop

Hello Albedo,

From France? And you prefer the french product!
Un peu de chauvinisme francais? :) Mais c'est un bon produit, comme beaucoup de produits francais, il faut le dire :)
 
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satans_priest

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besides this facts :) someone knows wheather zonealarm pro 3 is a phone-home app ?? if you install it with a "lost" number :) - what happens ?? ( e.g. registering at za home ,.... ?? )
 
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ssb

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BlackIce is really excellent to detect incoming port attacks although it doesn't afford as well on outgoing blocking. Anyway it's an excellent stable FW/blocker and the company i work for (a security advisor group) suggests it as a cheap solution.
A very interesting alternate if someone knows about networks, NAT, FW atc is Kerio's Winroute Pro. It's a very capable and strong ICS, NAT and FW. Excellent reporting, small footprint and advance configuration options.
It's not easy as ZA or BID or any other known soft FW but a user can configure it to act as a full blown proxy, connection router and very strong firewall with user port readdressing and other features.

regards
 
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