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Old 22-12-2004, 08:04 PM   #1
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Anybody know of a good, free firewall that can be installed on XP Home Edition?
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:08 PM   #2
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Zone alarm.
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:09 PM   #3
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Heard quite alot of things 'bout it... nonsensical stuff that one does, so am not too eager to take that one.
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:10 PM   #4
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I use it too. Can only recommend it...
                       
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:13 PM   #5
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I know that a recent version of Zonealarm wouldn't work with other firewalls and would just block everything and that's what led me to get rid of it, I don't know if it's been updated since that.
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:15 PM   #6
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Kerio Personal Firewall seems to be a good option too... anybody heard 'bout that one?
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:15 PM   #7
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Well, I didn't use other firewall besides ZoneAlarm at all, and I have ZoneAlarm PRO too, so I didn't encounter just about any troubles with it...
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Kerio Personal Firewall seems to be a good option too... anybody heard 'bout that one?
I heard that this one is good, also.
                       
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:28 PM   #8
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I use ZA too and I can only praise it. Never encoutered a problem and it's always active even if my explorer.exe fall appart (and God knows it does at time).

Could you bother telling us what is your grudge against ZA Kon-Tiki? Would like to know.
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:31 PM   #9
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Grudge not, but I've heard things like it being too picky, alarming even when somebody just talks to you on Msn... stuff like that. I dunno which source I've had it from, though. Been too long.
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Old 22-12-2004, 08:32 PM   #10
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Your source was obvious bad informed or did not know how to use a firewall prior to anything else.
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