ZoneAlarm and Sharp Hack Tracer

[Naresh]

Dear Sirs,
we have installed Zone Alarm on my system.
1.Will the installation of Hack Tacer -developed by Sharp Technology interfer with the Programs of Zone Alarm.
2.Are these two different.
3. Will the two firewalls created by both the softwares interfere with the working of each other.
OR is it safe to install both and run them simultaneously on the system.
We shall appreciate an earnest and quick reply.
warm regards
Naresh Taneja
AVN Overseas Pvt. Ltd.

[firewall.net]

1/ The classical and usual question : are 2 firewalls usefull ?

* Hummm as a first remark why not using 3 or 10 firewalls on the same way ?... this is already a way of answering this question... : -)

* A firewall is a tool supposed to filter the Internet (IP) traffic out and in-going, depending on the rules you decided yourself.
- Let's suppose you've chosen one that is doing quite great this job, so why using a second (a third ?...) one ? unless spending your cpu, memory ressources and slowing down your internet connexions... there's no reason.

- If you suppose it's not doing a good job or not corresponding to your needs, I'll recommend you to uninstall and forgive it asap ! Use another product there's plenty of them and few a really good and really unexpansive !

2/ What about Sharp Firewall (Hack Tracer) ?
In fact there's about hundred of firewall softwares today, from 0$ to more than 10.000$ . I do not have that much money to spend, knowing that there's already really cheap (costless, even free ?) product that are really efficient and usefull for all common users.
Enterprises needs are another buisness and no web site will be good enough to give *the* good solution for enterprises needs. They should (if not crazy) afford the help of IT specialists (internal or external) to check and solve their needs.

3/ are they (ZA and Sharp) different ?

Yes !!!!!!!!!!!! For sure , like 2 different software might be different ! : -)


Chryjs

[sam]

Personally, if i were using a program, i would use zonealarm....some new files have been added meaning that old ways round have been closed
Being part of the hacker community for a long time i am currently aware of no ways round zonealarm
i would reccommend you download "neotrace" from neoworx.com
This allows the IP adress that comes up in the alert box to be traced
you simply write it down and run neotrace and trace that ip....neotrace when purchased will provide you with a home adress....and if you are in the mood for puchasing i would deeply consider buying zonealarm pro as this includes email monitoring and other functions that aid the user...

[chris]

Hello ! does someone know how to set up a real firewall? i got two computers,one big and a notebook.I want to use my big one as a server and the notebook as an
ip filtering router.but I dont know how to configuer it.the operatingsystems are win nt on the firewall machine.