[Jack Black]

what are peoples experience w/ Zone Alarm, Black Ice and other firewalls? I've been running ZA and like it. It is a little bit of a pain in the training period. I'm running the free version though, so who can complain. What are the advantages of the others? Anybody pay the $39 bux to ZA. I think I'm going to. I can afford it and it seems to work.

[TechJunkYard]

what are peoples experience w/ Zone Alarm, Black Ice and other firewalls?

Better than no wall at all. I heard someone used the free ZA to stop the attacks (and resulting reboots) long enough to zap the reg key and executable. If ZA works for you, great.

I use iptables myself...

[FourPeas]

Mr. FourPeas has experience with these. Unfortunately right now he's knee deep trying to disinfect his networks. I'll see if I can get some info from him when he come up for air.

[Aric2000]

I love zone alarm, you just can't share internet access through it if you are on a modem, which bites, but means that I have to turn it off when the wife is using her machine.

Oh, and she got the little bastage too, but caught it before it did any damage.

[Utilizer]

what are peoples experience w/ Zone Alarm, Black Ice and other firewalls?

Personally, I am running ATguard and BlackIce. For some reason, I started getting a lot of TCP probes a couple of days ago, and now I am getting a HUGE amount of MSRPC port probes.