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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: willmiller on January 22, 2007, 12:31:38 AM

Title: Help me with my firewall
Post by: willmiller on January 22, 2007, 12:31:38 AM

My firewall that comes with my windows xp slows down my computer. (http://nba.sports-sport.info/nba-tv.html) What will be a better one firewall I can download and use for free?
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Title: Re: Help me with my firewall
Post by: Ox on January 22, 2007, 01:28:29 AM

others will be even slower.
try zone alarm pro but as i said,t will be marginally slower.

Thats the principle of a firewall - to check out things before giving clearance.

Maybe ur settings r too strict,

good luck.

Title: Re: Help me with my firewall
Post by: F0551L on January 22, 2007, 11:56:31 AM

yep agree there  using ZA myself and very pleased with it unlike some so called "professional" systems

Title: Re: Help me with my firewall
Post by: tiga on January 23, 2007, 09:17:06 PM

Do yourself a favour, get all firewall software off your PC and buy yourself a hardware firewall. They are very cheap these days and create no load issues on your PC. In my profession I work with firewalls every day and even the cheap ones are pretty good. 3Com, DLink & Linksys are the picks. They are actually called firewall routers. Even good ADSL modems these days have firewalls in them which do the Job. If you modem has no firewalling, buy one of the badboys above and put your adsl modem into bridge mode and all the pppoe authentication is handled by the firewall/router.

If you want to know more and which models to buy, just ask. :thumbsup