Does anyone know a personal firewall where you can define a rule like "Don't mind if file
myapp.exe has changed, always allow connections to and from it, and don't bother me with
warnings every time I hit F9" ?

My ex-wife, maybee??

lol.

Many of them see the build # change or something in the EXE change.  Panda I
think had issues with that.

Lance


"Heiko Knuettel" <heiko@knuettel.com> wrote in message
news:49101FBC-FF4C-40CD-9071-CA5F1D641764@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Does anyone know a personal firewall where you can define a rule like
> "Don't mind if file
> myapp.exe has changed, always allow connections to and from it, and don't
> bother me with
> warnings every time I hit F9" ?
>

Zonealarm Pro allows this.

"Heiko Knuettel" <heiko@knuettel.com> wrote in message
news:49101FBC-FF4C-40CD-9071-CA5F1D641764@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Does anyone know a personal firewall where you can define a rule like
> "Don't mind if file
> myapp.exe has changed, always allow connections to and from it, and don't
> bother me with
> warnings every time I hit F9" ?
>

Just go get a box, avoid software firewalls.

Regards,
Scott.

"Heiko Knuettel" <heiko@knuettel.com> wrote in message
news:49101FBC-FF4C-40CD-9071-CA5F1D641764@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Does anyone know a personal firewall where you can define a rule like
> "Don't mind if file
> myapp.exe has changed, always allow connections to and from it, and don't
> bother me with
> warnings every time I hit F9" ?
>

Scott,

What box did you use? Giving some thoughts to firewalls these days.

Jerry

<smartin@pdq.net> wrote in message
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| Just go get a box, avoid software firewalls.
|
| Regards,
| Scott.
|
| "Heiko Knuettel" <heiko@knuettel.com> wrote in message
| news:49101FBC-FF4C-40CD-9071-CA5F1D641764@news.elevatesoft.com...
| > Does anyone know a personal firewall where you can define a rule like
| > "Don't mind if file
| > myapp.exe has changed, always allow connections to and from it, and
don't
| > bother me with
| > warnings every time I hit F9" ?
| >
|
|

Well ....

Bought my wife a laptop w/ wireless so I ran down to the local BestBuy and
got a Linksys so she could get online right now!

If I were to recommend one, I would suggest SonicWall or Watchguard.

Regards,
Scott.

>
> What box did you use? Giving some thoughts to firewalls these days.

Thanks.

Jerry

<smartin@pdq.net> wrote in message
news:4F89D93C-3070-4387-B257-92B5CCCCD95F@news.elevatesoft.com...
| Well ....
|
| Bought my wife a laptop w/ wireless so I ran down to the local BestBuy and
| got a Linksys so she could get online right now!
|
| If I were to recommend one, I would suggest SonicWall or Watchguard.
|
| Regards,
| Scott.
|
| >
| > What box did you use? Giving some thoughts to firewalls these days.
|
|

I like both the hdwe firewall plus software firewall... particularly
if there's a notebook that comes and goes and can bring something
inside the network.

Jon

Jerry Clancy wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Jerry
>
> <smartin@pdq.net> wrote in message
> news:4F89D93C-3070-4387-B257-92B5CCCCD95F@news.elevatesoft.com...
> | Well ....
> |
> | Bought my wife a laptop w/ wireless so I ran down to the local BestBuy and
> | got a Linksys so she could get online right now!
> |
> | If I were to recommend one, I would suggest SonicWall or Watchguard.
> |
> | Regards,
> | Scott.
> |
> | >
> | > What box did you use? Giving some thoughts to firewalls these days.
> |
> |
>
>

smartin@pdq.net wrote:
> Just go get a box, avoid software firewalls.
>
> Regards,
> Scott.

In that case you need to make sure that the hardware firewall filters
outgoing as well as incoming traffic.  My hardware firewall only checks
incoming traffic but my software firewall checks both incoming and
outgoing.  A while back the software firewall caught spyware trying to
connect to the Internet, which of course was completely missed by the
hardware firewall.

Regards,

SteveG

For that I use something like SpySweeper to catch apps that try to inject
spyware in the first place.
After having a software firewall for a while, just got tired of it, DLL
problem causing AV or CPU at 100% type of crap.

Firewall
SpySweeper
AV

Scott.

"Steve Gill" <v8steve_removethis_@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:A3739188-769B-45DA-AB9E-3C8383933566@news.elevatesoft.com...
> smartin@pdq.net wrote:
>> Just go get a box, avoid software firewalls.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Scott.
>
> In that case you need to make sure that the hardware firewall filters
> outgoing as well as incoming traffic.  My hardware firewall only checks
> incoming traffic but my software firewall checks both incoming and
> outgoing.  A while back the software firewall caught spyware trying to
> connect to the Internet, which of course was completely missed by the
> hardware firewall.
>
> Regards,
>
> SteveG