[access-uk] Re: comodo firewall

  • From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:00:38 +0100

Hi Christopher.
Essentially, Look and Stop looks quite accessible. it looks robust and an ideal solution.
The price however is fierce. It costs £39.00 for one machine and £39 for between 2 and 4 machines and £32 each for more than that. It is definitely one of the more expensive products out there but it is pretty accessible.
Kerio does also look good at first. The alert windows that come up are detailed and accessible but the administration/configuration page requires quite a lot of mouse cursor to access different parts of it. It is free, but the free version introduces features like add blocking and popup blocking on web pages. I don't want that. I just want a firewall.
Maybe there are older versions on sites like www.oldversions.com that would do the job. I tried version 2.114 of Kerio firewall from the JFWLite website. This works well but in the simple mode it does not recognize skype. and kept popping up messages for people wanting to contact skype and I wasn't sure exactly what to let through.
The advice given about Kerio seems to be that in simple mode it is too permissive where as in the advanced mode it asks about every single thing and there are just too many popups to make it usable.
The advice around the security sites I have looked at seems to be that Sygate is getting rather old now. A recent spyware attack, that caused all my recent woes, disabled Sygate easily anyway. 

Regards

Graham
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:44 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: comodo firewall



Graham, sorry to hear about your troubles with Commodo. I must admit I
haven't had a proper play with this since it was mentioned on the
GWMicro list, to which I was once subscribed to when I was using a demo
copy of Window-Eyes. In Window-Eyes's case, on my system it just stopped
talking when windows like you described came up. So as a result I took
it off and resorted to Windows Firewall. I did try Kerio and even paid
for it, thinking it would allow me to connect to my university's
network, but I couldn't! So once again I took off Kerio and reverted
back to Windows Firewall. I'd be interested to hear what you think of
Look'N'Stop as I've heard good things about it on the aforementioned
list. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you.
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:46:51 +0100, "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:

Hi all.

Thanks to Chris for suggesting this one.

I tried this running JAWS version 8.0.2107

Installation was possible with few problems for me really but I would
give the installation  process about 3.5 out of 5

First, there were 2 buttons with graphics labels associated with them
who's purpose I am not sure of.  Secondly, although the license was
recognised as a read only box, I could not actually read its contents.
Pressing enter on next does not work, you need to press spacebar.

You could not tab to something that was a change destination button when
installing Comodo in order to change the folder into which the software
is to be installed or the program group within the start menu.

After the installation was complete I got a message that popped up asking
me if I wanted Skype to run.  I could tab through this box, but it did
not have a title that I could get at. pressing insert t in jaws just gave
me a no title message.

I could access this fine when there was only the desktop but once other
applications were present it was necessary to use the mouse cursor to
click on a part of the window in order to bring it into focus and then I
could tab through it.

This is too much like hard work I am afraid. I can't give it more than
2.5 out of 5 for accessibility.

I will try Kerio next and report on what I find.

Of the ones I have played with, Look and ?Stop does indeed look the most
accessible so may have to go with it anyway and just pay up!

Cheers

Graham


Christopher Hallsworth
E-mail: chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Skype name chrishallsworth7266

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