Firewall question

Paulfcb

Not entirely sure where this thread belongs so feel free to move. In the past I've used Zone-Alarm as my firewall. However I've found turning it off notably increases the speed of my PC. So I've decided to go back to the basic Windows Firewall. Is this good enough? There's another one I'm thinking of trying - I think it's called Comodo. What do you guys use and what makes one firewall better than another?

Trogan

Hi Paul,

I've moved your thread to Networking and Security.
Comodo is an excellent fully functional Free Firewall and it seems a lot of people are trading Zone Alarm for Comodo. I have recently done this on two computers.

Give it go and see what you think.

Paulfcb

Thanks! When I click the link for Comodo here http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43902 it returns this http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.htmll Requested URL does not exist. 404 not found.

Kentigern

Paulfcb wrote:

Thanks! When I click the link for Comodo here http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43902 it returns this http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.htmll Requested URL does not exist. 404 not found.

Looks like it's got an extra l free_products.htmll

Use this one http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.html

it will take you there

Paulfcb

Thank you!

felix46

Paulfcb wrote:

Not entirely sure where this thread belongs so feel free to move. In the past I've used Zone-Alarm as my firewall. However I've found turning it off notably increases the speed of my PC. So I've decided to go back to the basic Windows Firewall. Is this good enough? There's another one I'm thinking of trying - I think it's called Comodo. What do you guys use and what makes one firewall better than another?

I used to use a firewall in the past but like you said it slows the speed of my connection in the long run. I searched for other alternatives and I found Prevx1. I did not use a firewall and an antispyware after I installed this. And the speed of the internet is not affected. Hope this helps.

Armo

if you have some junker machine laying around you can turn that into a firewall using IPCOP or my favorite Smoothwall. If not, small routers like linksys and dlink have builtin firewalls that should suffice the average home user.