[LMB] AKICOTL: Sygate Firewall Issues

[Mark Allums]

Doctor Nightfall wrote:
> I've been running Sygate Personal Firewall on the family
  computers for a while, and have had no issues until we
got ADSL Broadband.
> Once we got the system, we then started accumulating 
computers- There's the one I'm using, the Family one, that
is- and then there are the other two computers, belonging
to my little brother and sister.
> Here's the thing. They're all attached to the same Hub, 
which runs into the Broadband modem/router. And THIS
computer (running Windows XP) has Sygate on it, which
is great and fine and convinced that the other two computers
are trying to hack it through ntoskrnl.exe. I cannot find a
way to stop it from complaining about this, even though the
alerts have a little checkbox for "Do not show this warning
again".
> Any ideas?


One thought is to try a different firewall.  Try ZoneAlarm. 
ZoneLabs/Checkpoint has a free version that works very well.  You can 
set up your network as "Trusted", but traffic to/from the internet is 
still treated as separate, and dangerous.  Each program that 
communicates with the network must be vetted by you, but that is 
generally an item that needs doing only once.  It will nag you 
occasionally when a program is updated, as it regards the change as a 
possible security risk.  But it works well, and the price is right.  The 
free version is simple to set up and use, and I have been using it for 
years without issue.

--Mark