ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area Firewall and Filtering Software

bigrockk,

Great Link!
Lots of info to digest there.

Thanks,
Bill

Bill:
When I had my DSL at home, I used a product from BSafeOnline. 60 bucks a year, firewall, filtering with AI, and nearly invisible. The only time you knew it was there was when some popup got filtered, and it let you know. http://www.bsafehome.com/

It filters the stuff at their computers, netnanny and the others only block once it's in your computer.

I have had very little problem with this provider.

TW

Bill (and others inquiring):

A great filtering package that is pretty robust is called RI Filter and it can be found at:
http://www.rifilter.com/

For firewall software, I recommend Black Ice Defender.
http://www.black-ice-firewall.com/

Hope this helps!!!

Ian

Thanks everyone!

Lots to look at now.


Bill

Ditto to trainwire. I currently have bsafe online and it works great

Another ditto, we just started using Bsafe. Seems good so far. It's scary what can show up when a kid (or anyone) is surfing. A little inconvenience is a small price for the protection I want to give my kids. Often kids get links sent to them from school-mates too. The combination of software and good parental/child communication is the key.

For home use I have been using a Linksys firewall/router to connect my PC's and I have not had any issues in the last two years. I have tried the Norton and Mcafee products but a lot of the time it was more of a pain than it helped. One of the best ways to firewall yourself is to use a NAT router, what it does is takes your routable IP address, provided by your ISP, and connects a private network out to the internet via the single IP. Works great if you have two or more PC's. If you have an old PC laying around you could also use Coyote Linux, it runs off a floppy and it will run nicely on a 486, more info here http://www.coyotelinux.com I am currently building new firewalls for the company I work for now, I am a network administrator, if anybody has any questions feel free to e-mail me jcooper@rccsupport.com

Jim