Adam-D
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what free firewall do you use?
whats good
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PaulW
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i got an opensource one aaaages which has long since been discontinued
since then i've pretty much re-coded it & its running as a service on my 2k proxy & it does what i need it to do.
if your running XP tho, install SP2 & the newer updated windows firewall is alot better than the older shite one & is much more customiseable. Also has App-Protection so it warns you before an unknown program trys to access the internet & you can choose to block it or allow it.
[Edited on 24-08-2004 by PaulW]
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dave17
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norton personal firewall
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Adam-D
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i now have spygate personal firewall
my free norton wasnt haveing anyof it anymore so it got deleted
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Ev0s
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there is a free version on zone alarm whch aint bad
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Chris E
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as said zone alarm's pretty good.
I wouldnt install sp2 if you have win xp just yet, it can cause more harm than good. Best bet would be to backup your entire drive with a third party back up utility if you do install it....just in case!
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PaulW
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not had any problems on any of the 6 machines I've installed it on at home, or the 400+ machines at work.
I think 2 had a few issues when installing, but it was just cos of low diskspace.
[Edited on 24-08-2004 by PaulW]
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Adam-D
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paul whats ndis?
my firewall keeps saying its blocked it every few mins
ill try and get the file name nextime just wondering if it should be allowed
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PaulW
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quote:
Short for Network Driver Interface Specification, a Windows device driver interface that enables a single network interface card (NIC) to support multiple network protocols. For example, with NDIS a single NIC can support both TCP/IP and IPX connections. NDIS can also be used by some ISDN adapters.
NDIS includes a protocol manager that accepts requests from the network driver (at the transport layer) and passes these requests to the NIC (at the data link layer). So multiple NDIS-conforming network drivers can co-exist. Also, if a computer contains multiple NICs because it is connected to more than one network, NDIS can route traffic to the correct card.
NDIS was developed by Microsoft and 3COM. Novell offers a similar device driver for NetWare called Open Data-Link Interface (ODI).
could just be because you have file/print sharing or ICS
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Adam-D
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An application named NDIS User mode I/O Driver (file name ndisuio.sys) has been blocked from accessing the network.
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PaulW
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adam have a read of this
http://www.iceteks.com/articles.php?act=view&article=ndisuio&p=1&
from what i can gather in XP its to do with Wireless Networking, so if your not WiFi enabled, disable it with the instructions in the above link.
[Edited on 24-08-2004 by PaulW]
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Adam-D
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right ive disabeld it i havent got wifi just a rj45 star network
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