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Test Your Firewall!

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Sir Belisarius, Oct 16, 2001.

  1. Sir Belisarius

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    [​IMG] Hey all! I just picked up a new firewall program for my pc...It's pretty nice! A friend of mine also sent me a link to a website that tests your firewall's capabilities...If you want to give it a try, go www.grc.com Click on "Shields Up" :borg:

    It'll test damn near everything! I passed!
    :grin:
     
    Sir Belisarius, Oct 16, 2001
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    hmm yeah i've tried that once for my windows partition. no problems. And I had a free tiny personal firewall which took about one megabyte only :)

    i don't understand why people use huge system consuming programs like norton etc..
     
    Invoker, Oct 16, 2001
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    Because of the name :p
    I don't use a firewall anyway. No use as long as I am in a network where another PC is the ICS server and I don't know and I don't care whether that one has a firewall, it's not mine.
     
    Azardu, Oct 16, 2001
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    [​IMG] yea, my parents put norton on ouur comp also, it was a big waste of time, money, and space.

    I absolutly HATE it.
    (plus, i think my friend is scared for life; it ate some of his bios for lunch.:eek:)

    [This message has been edited by jack-of-all-trades (edited October 17, 2001).]
     
    jack-of-all-trades, Oct 17, 2001
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    Yay! My ports and computer is undetectable!!
     
    Shadow_Goddess, Oct 17, 2001
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    [​IMG] Thumbs up for ZoneAlarm and the Jana-Server.
    With those two freeware tools i have built up a home-LAN (3 PC's sharing one ADSL connection) that passed all tests i tried.

    Btw thanks for the URL Bel.
     
    BogiTheWaverer, Oct 17, 2001
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  7. Sir Belisarius

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    [​IMG] Bogi - ZOne Alarm is the firewall I'm using...It's pretty sweet!
     
    Sir Belisarius, Oct 18, 2001
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    Zonealarm is great! and anyone who is out there surfin the web,( especially with a highspeed connection)and not using a firewall they should download it right away!!
     
    Kitiara, Oct 18, 2001
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