[Ham-Computers] Re: Key For Black Ice

[Dale Miller]

I don't know either of you personally so I'm not going to say either is 
wrong.
I've never used Black Ice but I have heard other places as well as 
www.grc.com that it's not a good personal firewall.
I've personally used Zone Alarm from Zone Labs there free version is 
here http://www.zonelabs.com/
It's a good product so I've seen and heard.
Another good one I've heard is Sygate Personal Firewall at 
http://soho.sygate.com/products/shield_ov.htm
The are Several Personal Firewalls to be had some free others commercial.
I would go with Zone Alarm personally.
A google search such as 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Personal+Firewall%22&btnG=Google+Search 

brings up over 1 million pages with "Personal Firewall" in them
The better firewall is an old 486 or better PC with 2 ethernet cards and 
Freesco or Clark Connect installed.
There are other Linux variants that work too but I've used Freesco and 
Clark Connect.
Of course a personal firewall plus a pc made into a hardware firewall 
together is better protection.

Just my opinions and hope it helps someone.

73's
Dale Miller, KC2CBD



Duane Fischer W8DBF wrote:

>Paul, 	
>	
>Every post of yours I read tells me that you are not very computer literate. Jus
>tlook back at the simple questions you have asked for solutions to the past two
>years. They are in the archives. No offense intended, just stating facts, 'not'
>opinions.	
>	
>Your posts all seem to point out the bad software, but I never see you offer
>good solutions to people. Why is this? That you do not know?	
>	
>If you can hack your own system, then you sre as heck do not have very good
>firewall or other protection on it Paul! make sone wonder how much is the
>product and how much is th eoperator.	
>
>
>----------
>From: Paul Ahkolik <kc7qvs at yahoo.com>
>To: dfischer at usol.com; ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: Key For Black Ice
>Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 3:59 PM
>
>Duane, et al.
>
>This may sound angry at first, but please read on.
>
>Conjecture is NOT when one of the most respected
>professionals in the industry releases a review on it,
>which incidentally can be found at http://grc.com
>
>While I'm not at liberty to name my employer on a public
>mailing list, I can say that it is one of the top computer
>security firms in the nation, and that I speak not only
>from professional knowledge, but personal experience as
>well.
>
>With all due respect to my colleagues in the computer
>industry, anybody who recommends Black Ice, should either
>seek professionl help, or simply shut down their computers
>for all time.
>
>I'll close by saying that there's far better free firewalls
>on the web that are superior to Black Ice
>
>
>
>Paul W5PDA
>
>
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