WinXP - Firewall Recommendation

Can anyone recommend a good firewall for XP? At the moment I
only have the windows xp firewall running. I know this isn't
a proper firewall but i've never had a problem with it. I'm
very careful about what I download and scan everything etc.

I'd still like a firewall to monitor what apps access the
internet and see what ports are being hit. What I don't want
is some annoying program that is going to popup every 5
minutes and bother me. I want something that doesnt take up
much resources either.

I can't really be bothered to get a hardware based firewall,
I am not on a network so aint got a router or anything.

Cheddar

Cheddar wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good firewall for XP? At the moment I
> only have the windows xp firewall running. I know this isn't
> a proper firewall but i've never had a problem with it. I'm
> very careful about what I download and scan everything etc.
>
> I'd still like a firewall to monitor what apps access the
> internet and see what ports are being hit. What I don't want
> is some annoying program that is going to popup every 5
> minutes and bother me. I want something that doesnt take up
> much resources either.
>
> I can't really be bothered to get a hardware based firewall,
> I am not on a network so aint got a router or anything.

Sygate Personal firewall
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
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> Can anyone recommend a good firewall for XP? At the moment I
> only have the windows xp firewall running. I know this isn't
> a proper firewall but i've never had a problem with it. I'm
> very careful about what I download and scan everything etc.


Contrary to what I hear about Zone Alarm, I have been using it without
any spyware issues and/or hacker issues. I paid the 29.95 for the pro
version and it has been solid. I couldn't even connect my computer to
the internal network without enabling NetBIOS traffic!

Its a winner in my book!

URL www.zonealarm.com

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:44:58 +0100, "Cheddar"
<> wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a good firewall for XP? At the moment I
>only have the windows xp firewall running. I know this isn't
>a proper firewall but i've never had a problem with it. I'm
>very careful about what I download and scan everything etc.
>
>I'd still like a firewall to monitor what apps access the
>internet and see what ports are being hit. What I don't want
>is some annoying program that is going to popup every 5
>minutes and bother me. I want something that doesnt take up
>much resources either.
>
>I can't really be bothered to get a hardware based firewall,
>I am not on a network so aint got a router or anything.

Someone else posted a link to Kerio Personal Firewall, which is one of
the better free firewalls.

It's less resource intensive then ZoneAlarm as well, and is very easy
to configure.

Dazz

>
> It's less resource intensive then ZoneAlarm as well, and is very easy
> to configure.
>
> Dazz

Taking a look at the process tab for Windows Task Manager, Zone Alarm
only gets about 6-7 MB of address space. At least on Windows XP it
isn't bad. On Windows 98, it could be a lot more intensive.

Dino