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Posted by louise on December 12, 2005, 11:17 am
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>>since Sygate does not seem to be updating anymore --
>>purchased by Symantec -- I'm beginning to feel the need to
>>do something else.
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>>Win XP Pro
>>Linksys wired router
>>NOD32
>>Firefox about 60% of the time and IE, the rest of the time.
>>Outlook for e-mail
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>>I run Adaware, Spybot and Spydoctor on demand - I don't
>>leave any of them running.
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>>So what will replace Sygate and is not about to fold or be
>>purchased and included in some suite? I would really like
>>to be able to continue to use the best of each category for
>>my security.because of my use of speech recognition
>>software, I would like to conserve resources as much as
>>possible.
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>>I've read the suggestion that the XP firewall be turned on
>>and BoClean be run. Is this a reasonable solution? Or,
>>what are some other options?
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> Are you saying that your Linksys doesn't provide you with
> a firewall function? What is the model #?
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> Assuming that you already have a router/firewall, a software
> firewall has nothing to do insofar as blocking unrequested
> incoming packets. So in that case, enabling the XP firewall
> accomplishes nothing since it only blocks incoming.
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> Some people like third party software firewalls such as Sygate
> because they have the capability of permitting only authorized apps to
> access the internet. There is controversy on this since they are easy
> for malware to circumvent and/or disable. So if you are hit by certain
> malwares, the software firewall (and maybe antivirus) is useless.
> OTOH, not all malware and spyware do this, so in some cases the
> software firewalls have been useful in alerting users to
> malware/spyware.
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> If it gives you the warm fuzzies to use a software firewall, you might
> ask for opinions in a firewall newsgroup. ZA and Outpost are still
> available, I suppose. Personally, I plan to hang on to Sygate since
> I like its traffic log. However, I rarely use it since I have a
> router/firewall and have closed all ports besides :)
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> Art
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> http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Thanks for your response. My Linksys is a 3 year old
BEFSR41. I believe it does have an NAT built in. Is that
correct?
I don't want "warm fuzzies" at the price of using resources,
sofware conflicts, and all that goes with excessive use of
supposed safeguards. For this reason, I leave none of the
spyware programs running and only use them periodically, on
demand.
Since BoClean takes a big bite out of resources, I'm much
less inclined toward it.
I gather I should just leave the old Sygate running and not
worry about it?
TIA
Louise
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