firewalls

Hi! Here's the deal. I have a Quake 3 server on my computer at home. I can reach it from work, because the port I have it running on is not blocked here. Some friends work at a company with a lot of ports blocked (almost all). But people there can play Steam games as well as Starcraft II...

Does someone of my fellow JREF computer geeks know how to get a program to be the very, very first [third-party] software to autostart during the boot sequence in Windows [XP]? I want my Software-Firewall to be the first software to be active before any other software is being loaded - to...

1. Lately, I've been getting a lot of email from myself in the spam folder in gmail, and I'm now sure it's spoofed. Should I be reporting it to the gmail spam? 2. Uhm.. a more serious question. The only firewall I run currently is the one bundled with Windows and the router one. Now, I've tried...

Hi everyone. My newest adition to my computer park, an ACER Aspire 7720G, came with Vista Home Premium and aside from the fact that I'm planning on buying the disc instead of solely relying on the build in recoverysystem (What if the HD crashes?), it's been working like a charm. I do have one...

I was wondering if there was a way to have the included firewall with Vista block outgoing connections from 3rd party programs? Ideally, I would like a popup to ask me if I want to allow the program to connect to the internet, just as Zonealarm does. Unfortunately, Zonealarm isn't yet ready for...

Any networking guys out there help me or point me to a good forum or something for this? I have an ADSL connection with a UK ISP and am using a Huwei SmartAX MT882 modem. This mostly works OK. However when I try to VPN into work using PPTP protocol I can connect and it works for a bit (pretty...

Hello. I was wondering if anyone might have any experience with either the Cisco ASA 5500 (5505 or 5510) or Astaro 220? I'm looking for a replacement for a Sonicwall Pro which recently died. I need something with robust perimeter security, decent throughput and flexible remote user...

I've been unable to install zonealarm on one of my pcs and have tried a few different firewalls. All of them fail the Shields Up test from GRC by responding to ICMP requests. I've set a rule on the present firewall I'm using (Comodo) but, the same result is returned. Any advice?

The Register has an article on serious flaws in the Symantec firewall. Anyone using this firewall should have a read.

Do you get notified of attempted security breaches while you are browsing the JREF Bulletin Board? Four times today (so far), I've gotten notice that someone with IP address 207.44.202.162 has tried to attack. Let's start a list of IP addresses. Maybe they're not all dynamic addresses.

I have just installed the sygate free firewall, very groovy, nice graphs etc ;) Evry now and then i get a warning that Kernell32 is trying to access or has been activated and do i want to let it communicate with the internet. Anyone know what that is about? PJ

ZoneAlarm seems pretty good at blocking programs from accessing the internet (it asks if you want to allow) but this only works for the machine it is on. Is there a firewall that you can have running on one machine (a gateway) and when a program on another computer wants to access the internet...