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Dragonaut

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Need new firewall...having problems
#5210302 - 01/22/06 01:15 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm having problems with Sygate Personal Firewall. It was functioning fine before, but now part of it keeps crashing when it loads, and it's affecting DrWatson too. This started happening after I tried to upgrade to WinXP SP2.
Something happened during the initial installation of SP2, so I removed and reinstalled SP2, like my comp told me. Then I started having problems with my firewall, so I removed and reinstalled that too, but nothing got fixed. I think it might be a registry problem, but I really have no clue.
I was wondering if someone could tell me what is the best way to fix these problems? I need to know what(if anything) I need to do to my registry, and also reccommendations for a new firewall.
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Vvellum
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Re: Need new firewall...having problems [Re: Dragonaut]
#5210378 - 01/22/06 01:43 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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use a router as your firewall
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Dragonaut

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Re: Need new firewall...having problems [Re: Vvellum]
#5210438 - 01/22/06 01:59 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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...if only I had one.
Thanks though.
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supercollider
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Re: Need new firewall...having problems [Re: Dragonaut]
#5210870 - 01/22/06 04:23 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Have a crappy old computer in a closet somewhere? Dust it off and put Smoothwall on it. I have it on a pentium 133, no worries.
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Schwip
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Re: Need new firewall...having problems [Re: supercollider]
#5211464 - 01/22/06 06:43 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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been using zonealarm for the longest time.....seems to do the trick and its free
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Vvellum
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Re: Need new firewall...having problems [Re: Dragonaut]
#5212430 - 01/22/06 10:51 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
WI_Shroomer_Skater said: ...if only I had one.
Thanks though.
I have a d-link wired ethernet router that I used for only 2 months...before I had to go wireless. if you want to buy it cheap from me. works great.
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Re: Need new firewall...having problems [Re: Dragonaut]
#5213470 - 01/23/06 08:12 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I really wish they would stop calling these software based port blockers "firewalls". I firewall is a hardware device the stops unwanted packets (and packet fragments) from reaching your computer or network. A software "firewall" has already allowed the bad packet onto your network and to reach your computer, which (hopefully) simply discards it. The difference in security between the two is huge.[/rant]
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