services and software

[hellron]

ive installed winroute firewall but it has a crap firewall but i like the proxying as it works well with active directory and gives good stats, i want to turn the firewall off thats built into the program and run the windows firewall, but when i turn on the firewall in windows winroute stops the service imediatley i look in event log and it says service started service succesfully stopped, it stop the application layer gateway service aswell, how can i stop this so i can run the windows firewall and the winroute proxy?

thanks

[hellron]

i forgot to mention im using server 2003

[scuzzman]

A couple of things here:

1) you can stop the service by going to Start->Run, and type this

services.msc

YOU_CAN_SCREW_UP_YOUR_COMPUTER_WARNING: If you stop the wrong thing(s) in here, you can seriously screw up Windows! Stop ONLY the service you wish to and get back out

Locate the service, Right-Click and select "Properties"

Click on the "Stop" button

As for the Windows Firewall - it's crap. My personal reccomendation is to use Zonelabs ZoneAlarm. It's free and very good. Also, avoid Blackice Defender. Here's why (an excerpt from the article I linked to just now):

BlackICE Defender v2.5 ($39.95) —

I did not have a current copy of BlackICE Defender around, but I felt that this was an important test. So I laid out $39.95 through Network ICE's connection to the Digital River eCommerce retailer and purchased the latest version (v2.5) of BlackICE Defender hot off the Internet. I had already removed all traces of ZoneAlarm and restarted the machine, so I installed BlackICE Defender, let everything settle down, and restarted the machine with my packet sniffer running on an adjacent PC.

As far as I could tell, BlackICE Defender had ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on the dialogs being held by the Zombies and Trojans running inside the poor "Sitting Duck" laptop. I knew that BlackICE Defender was a lame personal firewall, but this even surprised me.

The Zombie/Bot happily connected without a hitch to its IRC chat server to await further instructions. The Sub7 Trojan sent off its eMail containing the machine's IP and the port where it was listening. Then it connected and logged itself into the Sub7 IRC server, repeating the disclosure of the machine's IP address and awaiting port number. No alerts were raised, nothing was flashing in the system tray. The Trojans were not hampered and I received no indication that anything wrong or dangerous was going on.

I took a lot of grief after my LeakTest utility cut right through BlackICE Defender. Network ICE told everyone that LeakTest was "being allowed through" because it was a completely benign Trojan. I knew that was a load of bull (and they must have too), but it didn't really matter to me, and I had no affirmative means of proving otherwise.

Well . . . I have that now, and so do you.