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It seems like every year I need to go through this exersize over and over again. The Firewall landscape seems to be like a formicating pool changing goalposts and lanscape as you watch. What was good is now deprecated and vice-versa. I used to prefer AtGuard, but then new exploits came on the scene which it did not catch (Due to some Windows low-level flaws) and the product was discontinued (and later bought by another company and defiled) Then I swote by Tiny Personal Firewall (version 2015a), and that also went the way of the dodo. Then it was Zone Alarm 5 (version 55940). Then it was Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2.3.912. And for the past year I was using Sygate Personal Firewall (which I bought) To my great dismay I have now discovered that Symantec has bought Sygate and basically deprecated the product, and having no great love for Norton/Symantec or MacAfee I started to look for alternative. These are my options now. (in order of preference) Core Force ZoneAlarm 55940 Sygate 5.6 Tiny

Ever been at a client with Orwellian access restrictions on the internet? Why not use what they provide you to the max without cracking their security. What you will need: 1. Access/login to a linux machine with ssh running on port 80 (or 443) (See UnixShell - They're grrreat!) 2. The proxytunnel client program . Creating the tunnel: Firstly you will need to create a TCPIP tunnel through your proxy server. For my example I'm running OS X (on my shiny MacBook Pro). To do this, add the following (2 lines) to your ~/.ssh/config file: Host shell.my-host.com ProxyCommand /Users/teuton/bin/proxytunnel -N -p "local-proxy:8080" -u "proxy-user" -s "proxy-pass" -d "shell.my-host.com:443" Great! We are all set! You may need to tweak these settings depending on your local proxy server type and configuration (NTML auth etc) Now the easy part. Creating the proxy: To ssh into your machine simply type: > ssh teuton@shell.my-host.com To make