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Firewall for Windows?
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by Faust:
and i've tried taking out the BIOS battery... didn't work which was *weird*
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Remove the battery for like 15 seconds, power on the system(with no battery), power down the system at the BIOS post screen, re-insert the battery then power on the system again. Now there should be no password(please note you will need to re-configure the BIOS to get the best performance out of the machine).
You can achieve the same results if you set the CMOS jumper to clear CMOS, power on the system, power down the system, place the jumper back into the normal operation position, yada, yada.
[ April 19, 2003: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]
lazygamer:
quote:However! Obviously its a win program and nothing could really secure a dam with taht many holes... wouldnt it be nice if there was some way to put a dedicated firewall on a cool OS "in between" your computer and your isp? wouldnt it be even better if the cost of the old comp for that dedicated hardware firewall was cheaper than most win firewall apps? heres the ultimate solution! smoothwall!
this puppy comes with a pretty full on firewall, AND it masquerades your computers behind it AND its been hardened up for security AND you dont need to waste your desktops CPU cycles on a firewall ap AND the cost of the (not necessarily fast) computer to run it on would be no more than $50 AUS ($25 US) AND theres no need to waste desktop box hdd space or RAM on a firewall app AND with a hub you can have one firewall managing multiple comps so you dont need to mantain seperate firewalls on multiple comps at once! AND if your "interested in learning" like you said then seeing the output of iptables -L will help a lot as will reading an iptables script
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Wow, sounds good! I'll get something like that when I'm living on my own.
How does that work anyways? Does it work better than a regular firewall because the whole OS can be devoted soley to firewall duties? I'd assume that a firewall must cut down on how often it can scan stuff or it would slow the shit out of a system.
I am on DSL, so kiddies are my biggest concern.
HPC GUY:
www.sygate.com
free for non corporate customers
great if u ask me. it detected and stopped a D0s attack from fucking up my cpu.
raptor:
quote:Originally posted by Panos:
I believe that one of the best firewalls for windows is ZoneAlarm. I haven't used windows for quite a while though, since I mostly use OS X and Linux. Perhaps, others can help more.
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ZA is not a good firewall to use at all.
[ April 19, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]
[ April 19, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]
Fett101:
And.... are you going to give a reason why it's not a good firewall, or just make accusations?
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