RE: [newbie] Firewall and win
Firewall can only block ports but not program specific, i.e., if you block everything but leave web open, any web browser would work. If you really want to lock it down to one program, i.e. Netscape instead of IE, try something like Norton Personal Firewall. There are quite a few others out there, Zone Alarm and so on, but since I don't use them, I cannot comment on those. HTH Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stojs Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Firewall and win I have a lan connection to the internet and would like to have one smoothwall linux firewall computer connected to the internet. This smoothwall would be connected to a mandrake linux computer wich would be connected to a win2000 machine. Is it possible to have the windows computer totally shut off from the internet exept for one program (direct connect)? If it ispossible, is it a good choice? Would it be better to have mandrake run a firewall, and skip the smoothwall machine? Or should I have a firewall in the windows machine instead? Thanks in advance, Stojs _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall and win
Robin wrote: Firewall can only block ports but not program specific, i.e., if you block everything but leave web open, any web browser would work. If you really want to lock it down to one program, i.e. Netscape instead of IE, try something like Norton Personal Firewall. There are quite a few others out there, Zone Alarm and so on, but since I don't use them, I cannot comment on those. I think Zone Alarm does the same thing as Norton Personal Firewall. I use Zone Alarm (the free personal edition -- not sure it's available anymore) and it seems that I can block access by specific program. When it finds a program trying to connect from my machine to the Internet, it tells me the name of the program, it asks me if I want to allow that specific program to access the Internet, and maintains a list of the programs I have enabled to do so. (I can delete programs from that list if I wish.) Not sure how incoming connections are handled because I use a NAT based gateway which only allows incoming connections associated with an outgoing request. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall and win
Take a look at Tiny Personal Firewall as well, www.tinysoftware.com. It has some insteresting features that are not available on ZoneAlarm. Tiny is also free. Rodrigo Randy Kramer wrote: Robin wrote: Firewall can only block ports but not program specific, i.e., if you block everything but leave web open, any web browser would work. If you really want to lock it down to one program, i.e. Netscape instead of IE, try something like Norton Personal Firewall. There are quite a few others out there, Zone Alarm and so on, but since I don't use them, I cannot comment on those. I think Zone Alarm does the same thing as Norton Personal Firewall. I use Zone Alarm (the free personal edition -- not sure it's available anymore) and it seems that I can block access by specific program. When it finds a program trying to connect from my machine to the Internet, it tells me the name of the program, it asks me if I want to allow that specific program to access the Internet, and maintains a list of the programs I have enabled to do so. (I can delete programs from that list if I wish.) Not sure how incoming connections are handled because I use a NAT based gateway which only allows incoming connections associated with an outgoing request. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall and win
Rodrigo wrote: Take a look at Tiny Personal Firewall as well, www.tinysoftware.com. It has some insteresting features that are not available on ZoneAlarm. Tiny is also free. Rodrigo, Thanks, I'll take a look. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Firewall and win
I have a lan connection to the internet and would like to have one smoothwall linux firewall computer connected to the internet. This smoothwall would be connected to a mandrake linux computer wich would be connected to a win2000 machine. Is it possible to have the windows computer totally shut off from the internet exept for one program (direct connect)? If it ispossible, is it a good choice? Would it be better to have mandrake run a firewall, and skip the smoothwall machine? Or should I have a firewall in the windows machine instead? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
