Pc-cillin 2003 firewall

[syun_ukiya]

Just a question, if i install pc-cillin firewall will it deplete my cpu resources and is it worth the install?

[Baloki]

If your using another firewall then it is not worth installing. If it isn't then install it, it will protect you against most of the web nasties and yes it will use about 2-5% of your system reasourse and probably needs more then or at least 64mbs of ram to run :D It won't use all the ram but thats the way it works :D

[crono_logical]

All software firewalls will use CPU, yes. I have no idea about deplete though - it might only do that if you're transferring at really high speeds like in the order of MB/s to/from hundreds of different hosts at once, otherwise if it does it at low speeds, it's a pretty crap firewall. Only firewall I've ever seen do that though (and hence is crap) is ZoneAlarm. 64 MB sounds excessive for memory usage for a firewall too - mine has over 100 filters in, I'm usually transferring hundreds of k/s normally while I'm here at uni, and my firewall has only peaked at 6 MB memory over the past few days.

[Baloki]

64 MB sounds excessive for memory usage

I was meaning more like you'll need that to run it on your system as 98/ME use about 40 just on their own.

[syun_ukiya]

i've read something that pc-cillin firewall is useless, is there a truth in that?

[crono_logical]

All firewalls are useless if you set them up wrong. The bad ones are the ones that are useless even though you've set them up as correctly as possible depending on how it allows you to set it up :p Stuff like BlackIce Defender and the XP Firewall :p

[Baloki]

All firewalls are useless if you set them up wrong. The bad ones are the ones that are useless even though you've set them up as correctly as possible depending on how it allows you to set it up :p Stuff like BlackIce Defender and the XP Firewall :p

Zonealarm is crap however you set it up.

Norton is the best but you have to spend about a half hour going through the wizard.

[crono_logical]

Yes, Zonealarm is crap, I'd certainly never install it on my PC, but at least it's more flexible than the XP one :p

[Baloki]

Yes, Zonealarm is crap, I'd certainly never install it on my PC, but at least it's more flexible than the XP one :p

Not really as the XP one doesn't work :D

[crono_logical]

It's enough to block Blaster/Sasser attacks, I'd say it has limited functionality at the very least :p

[Baloki]

It's enough to block Blaster/Sasser attacks, I'd say it has limited functionality at the very least :p

I suppose, although it more often then not just blocks all data not from a Microsoft site.