It does protect very good, but any time someone pings your system even if its junk traffic you get a window. Sometimes these pings are needed for your modem to do its work in verifying your ip, and you may block it by accident. The information that comes up isn't always helpful when de siding to block. Were with sygate it does all this behind the seem for you. I use to run tiny personal witch is now Kerio for a long time, but when I tried sygate it made me switch and that ain't easy. At 08:20 PM 1/25/04 -0800, you wrote: >Hi, >I have just downloaded and am running the latest Sygate firewall, but I have >a question regarding Kerio >2.5. You mentioned not using the latest Kerio because of overhead. >However, how well will it protect? Is there any protection benefit to using >the later version of Kerio? and does it work real well with JAWS 5.0 or >4.5? >I really appreciate everyone's responses to my questions. >Thanks. > >Dan >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Pranav Lal" <nomad42@xxxxxxxx> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:23 PM >Subject: Re: Firewalls Questions > > > > Dan, > > > > You may also want to try Kerio. Get hold of the older version that is >Kerio > > 2.5. The later version that is v4.5 is bloted and takes a lot of work to >be > > used efficiently with a screen reader. > > > > Pranav > > At 01:01 AM 1/26/2004, you wrote: > > >Hi, > > >I have some questions regarding firewalls Under Windows XP Home. From >the > > >standpoint of JAWS, what are the chief differences between Sygate and > > >Kerio free personal firewalls. in terms of ease of use and overall best > > >performance using JAWS 5.0 or JAWS 4.51, which firewall would you > > >recommend and why? > > >Thanks. > > >Dan > > > > > >-- > > >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > > >jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > > > > > > -- > > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > > >-- >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Tim trouble -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.