I would like to get some reviews and preferences about free firewalls(Zonealarm,Sygate or....?).I thank you in advance and have a Happy Thanksgiving! Matthew.

mebienpesa: Although I've used Zone Alarm, Sygate, Kerio and Agnitum--all of them will stealth your PC--Sygate probably offers the most flexibility of the four. Solarian

Solarian, I am curious what the Sygate has that the Kerio FW doesn't. Mind giving a brief comparison

Mike: I've found it to be more configurable when setting permissions than Kerio. I'm speaking here of the older freeware version. Naturally, you get more bells and whistles with the pay-for version, which is also true for the pay-for version of Kerio. That said, Kerio is easier to set up. But in terms of a firewall's most important function--stealthing your PC; making it invisible on the Internet--the freeware version of Kerio works as well as the pay-for version. Kerio recently (November 21, 2003) came out with an updated version (4.0.8) of its free firewall. The version I've used is 2.1.5. New Kerio Firewall LINK Solarian

I like so much Sygate flexibility, but port 5000 is not stealth on xp System. May be I don't know how to configure it out. Any Idea ?

hey, for closing port 5000 http://grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm Good luck

I knew about grc unpnp. The point is I guess sygate can't solve the problem