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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: FPF-Paladin on February 27, 2010, 08:53:19 am
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Hey everyone.. built a new tower. Been doing the reinstall-dance-of-nojoy...
So naturally I grabbed a firewall to use other than Windows Firewall... ZoneAlarm Free. I'm confused though - I have a dual core system and it was showing as using on average 8% of my cpu time? Is this normal, I don't recall it being such a resource hog.
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Hmm. It's been a long time since i used Zone Alarm, but that does seem awfully high.
Stephen
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ZoneAlarm was good for about the first three years. XP SP2 killed it.
Whatever you do, make sure you turn off the windows firewall if you run zonealarm. Run both and anything can happen. I lost a job to that once.
I was going to suggest BlackIce but it seems IBM has replaced it with something called IBM Proventia Desktop Endpoint Security (http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/offering/iss/a1027756)
If I really wanted to use a firewall beyond my linksys router and the windows software firewall these days, I would probably just replace the linksys router with a m0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch/wall/), Coyote Linux (http://coyotelinux.com/) or IPCop (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ipcop/wiki) installation - something easy to use but more powerful than my router. (then I'd just use the router as a dumb switch on the lan)
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Holy crap... lost a job over it? Well, I do know to disable the windows firewall (I kill the unneeded services along with it too) so I'm sure that wasn't the problem.
I've got a router but the firewall configuring leaves a lot to be desired, so I was resorting to this instead. Yeah, if you've got recommendations I'm open to ideas... I think I'll revisit trying to set up the router firewall again.