Personal Firewalls

[MadSwede]

I am currently running Windows ME and a SpeedStream DSL Router. I am looking for suggestions on a Personal Firewall. I am looking at both ZoneAlarm and Tiny's Personal Firewall. Has anyone had experience with either and could recommend it, or recommend any other Firewall?

[reghakr]

MadSwede,

I've been using ZoneAlarm since I got my cable connectoion. I have had no problems and I visited those sites that check your security. Here's one of those reports:

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or
refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN
NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet
NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows
networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

reghakr

[Phil_H]

Go to http://www.grc.com this site is run by Steve Gibson who likes exposing bad firewalls praises Zonealarm and you can use the shieldsup to test your connection security

I personaly use norton because it comes with virus protection and ad removal so that i don't waste time with bannerad loading but Zonealarm is FREE
Phil

[Micky]

Hm?
I use ZoneAlarm at home too.

I have IIS 4.0 on my NT4 server and although IIS has all permission available in ZoneAlarm, it sometimes blocks FTP connections from IIS to a client.

I'm searching for a better firewall too.