[OPLINTECH] Software Firewalls

[Chad Neeper]

FWIW, in past years, I've occasionally used Zone Alarm from Zone Labs
(www.zonelabs.com) on pre-Windows XP machines. It is a good and
comprehensive personal firewall. At that time, however, I wasn't
firewalling all individual workstations. Now, if faced with firewalling
a large number of pre-XP workstations, I would look first to open source
software (although I haven't yet and can't suggest any specific projects
for Windows personal firewalls) before recommending software that needed
to be purchased.

Chad

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Jeff Franklin wrote:
> As a followup to the prior email, perhaps I should add that we currently
> have a very good hardware firewall solution in place on our network with
> specific configurations and settings for public, private, DMZ, and internet
> zones.  I don't need (but appreciate) information on hardware firewalls.  I
> am just trying to find out for library's that have a good hardware firewall
> solution in place, if you are running software firewalls also (those that
> have responded so far seem to be running the XP firewall).  For those with
> Windows 2000 or prior Windows versions on your computers, are you running
> firewalls on those PC's also?  And if so, which ones?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff Franklin
> Norwalk Public Library
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]On
> Behalf Of Jeff Franklin
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:43 AM
> To: OPLINTech (E-mail)
> Subject: [OPLINTECH] Software Firewalls
>
>
> Greetings in Library Land,
>
> For those of you that have a true hardware firewall on your networks, how
> many of you are also running software firewalls on the PC's?  For those of
> you that are running software firewalls, are they installed on staff
> computers, public computers, or have them on both?  What software firewall
> are you using?  On XP computers, are you running the XP firewall, using a
> different firewall instead, or not using the XP or another firewall at all?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jeff Franklin
> Norwalk Public Library
>
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