SP3 Success - Need new firewall

[jumpy]

I used ZA Pro for ages, but when my last subscription expired I just turned the window$ firewall on instead. Granted I run through a router before connecting to the internet, as well as having a software firewall, but since then I've never had any 'issues' related to infection or instability or resource hogging. I seem to recall some versions of ZA used to add to boot time.

I liked the layout of ZA and how you could see all of the permissions and stuff, but everything seems to work ok without it

[lesrae]

Originally Posted by jumpy

Granted I run through a router before connecting to the internet, as well as having a software firewall, but since then I've never had any 'issues' related to infection or instability or resource hogging.

Ditto for me, no problems with the Microsoft one.

[Arclight]

I've been using Comodo for a while now, only issue I ever had was getting ICS to work properly so other PC's on my network could actually connect. No problem setting it up, but after reboot the settings seemed to have been erased, requiring everything to be set up again. Fairly anoying.

"Fixed" it by not running the internet connection through my PC, but instead to a switch and then to each individual PC. Downside is that every PC needs to run it's own protection (and no networking), but that's just minor. Never had any infections of any kind while using Comodo firewall + defense shield.

Never really made any changes to the options, when a program tries anything you get a pop-up. You can allow, block or specify a policy for it then and there.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Reece

First off thanks to all who helped me to persist with installing SP3, the cause of the BSOD was ZoneAlarms "TrueVector Internet Monitor" service.
This leaves me now with no firewall, I don't like microsoft's firewall so I was wondering about Sygate, can anyone advise me on what this is like or suggest a better alternative, the less services running though the better!
Many Thanks.

Use Comodo. The likes of Tiny seem to be leaky. ZoneAlarm was never a good choice.

The MS one is fine if you don't care about whats going out, just whats coming in.

-S