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Posted by ac on July 12, 2004, 3:43 pm
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On your question about hardware firewalls; I use a Linksys router and find
it very reliable. The only problem is it doesn't monitor / alert on outgoing
traffic, so you don't get warned of spyware, etc that might phone home. I am
looking to have the best of both worlds by having both router and software
firewall. So far I've looked at Zonealarm (but this can't be configured to
block outgoing traffic by ip address to block known ad servers) and Kerio
(which is very configurable in what it can block, but unfortuantely also
regularly crashed my computer).
On your first point, I'm not sure I like the sound of a provider port
scanning my system - but as you've probably gathered from my above comments
I'm slightly paranoid!
Hope these thoughts are helpful...
> I'm on Telewest Blueyonder Broadband in the UK and reaquainted myself
> with ZoneAlarm recently. Every ten seconds I was notified of some
> port intrusion, some from Blueyonder IP's, some not. Telewest informs
> me that their servers will port scan clients. Does this seem
> reasonable? Most of the other port intrusions I presume are from
> virus-hijacked computers?
>
> Furthermore, as ZoneAlarm has this nasty side-effect of crashing my
> computer, I'd like to replace it with a much more reliable means of
> security--a router. Does anyone have any opinions as to why a hardware
> firewall (I'm leaning toward Linksys BEFW11S4) might NOT be a better
> idea than software firewall?
>
> I know ZoneAlarm isn't the end all and be all of firewalls. I like
> Norton's antivirus, maybe their Internet Security combo is decent?
> Though ...it's still cheaper to buy the router!
>
> Thanks for your opinions in advance.
>
> Evan Joanette
> ejoanett@hotmail.dot.com
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