RE: Personal Firewalls

["Robinson, Sonja" <SRobinson () HIPUSA com>]

Don't want to burst your bubble or crticize you, but I think that you need
to can Win98 and upgrade your O/S to either w2K or XP.  Win98 is totally
insecure.  From an intrusion and weakness standpoint I love to play with
people who have 98.  From a forensic standpoint I love it to.  It's Soooooo
easy.

Anything you listed as far as a personal fw is fine.  I haven't tested the
others but Zone Alarm and other products basically do the same thing.  Might
I suggest that you install the personal fw on a separate box and then put
your other machine behind it?  It adds an extra layer of security.  You
don't need something great, just an old crappy pc with a large enough drive
to hold your O/S, your fw and the logs.  And old 1.2GB drive is cool with a
slower CPU since you don't really have to worry about network traffic and
speed issues since it is a passthru for you anyway.  Oh, and put a good
SECURED O/S on that box too.  Def NOT Win98.

Sonja Robinson, CISA
Network Security Analyst
HIP Health Plans
Office:  212-806-4125
Pager: 8884238615



-----Original Message-----
From: Sridhar J [mailto:sridhar.jayaraman () wipro com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:27 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Personal Firewalls


Hi

I have a PIII 550 m/c running Win98. I need a personal firewall for it. I am
looking at Zone Alarm, Sygate and Tiny Personal Firewall as my options.

My intention is not only to protect my systems, but also to learn something
about logs and analysing them. In light of this, which do you think would be
ideal?

No, I don't have a *nix system and don't intend to use it now.


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Regards
Sridhar J
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"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence;The question is,
what can you make people believe that you have done." --Sherlock Holmes in
"A Study in Scarlet"


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