I'm a believer in defense in depth.
I am in fact using a NAT router now. (I wasn't when I first set up the firewall. At that point I was using an internal modem, so my options were kind of limited.) But without any outbound filtering, there's nothing helping you if your AV/AS *doesn't* catch something.
Only other firewall on this particular machine was the windows firewall (which ZoneAlarm turned off). From searching their forums, it's a problem other people have had too. One of the processes ends up using 99% of the processor... forever, basically. x.x
(Also, Windows Firewall isn't really an option for a windows 2000 machine. '.' )
-Morgan.
I am in fact using a NAT router now. (I wasn't when I first set up the firewall. At that point I was using an internal modem, so my options were kind of limited.) But without any outbound filtering, there's nothing helping you if your AV/AS *doesn't* catch something.
Quote:If that's the scenario... I still recommend ZoneAlarm. In my experience it's never been responsible for lag and instability. The one time I saw that was due to a competing product trying to do the same job, ZA just brought it to light (I wasn't aware that a firewall was already running).
Only other firewall on this particular machine was the windows firewall (which ZoneAlarm turned off). From searching their forums, it's a problem other people have had too. One of the processes ends up using 99% of the processor... forever, basically. x.x
(Also, Windows Firewall isn't really an option for a windows 2000 machine. '.' )
-Morgan.