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Sygate Personal Best Firewall Pro

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Application-Based Intrusion Detection System
Protocol Driver-Level Protection
Active Response
Anti-IP & Anti-MAC Spoofing
Application DLL Authentication
Firewall Termination Prevention

Sygate Personal Best Firewall Pro Review

Winner of the 2002 Windows & .NET Reader's Choice Award and PC World's 2002 World Class Award, Sygate Personal Firewall Pro provides a multi-layered shield of network, content, application, and operating system protection for your PC.

The Pro version includes a comprehensive Intrusion Protection System (IPS) which includes IDS, DoS protection, and Trojan protection which sets this program high above other personal firewalls.

Sygate Personal Best Firewall Pro is the ultimate desktop security solution trusted by professionals and relied upon by millions of users.

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Features:

Network Layer -- Secure Internet Connections
Halt Trojan Attacks
It is the first personal firewall that offers real protocol driver-level protection, preventing hostile programs such as Trojan Horses and malicious mobile code from accessing the network using their own protocol driver. With newly added network layer protection measures and existing application level protection, Sygate Personal Best Firewall Pro provides complete security from the network to the application layer.
Content Layer -- Secure Trusted Traffic
Prevent Fraudulent Traffic
It is the first personal firewall with an application-based intrusion detection system (IDS). Network layer protection can ensure the inbound network packets are legitimate, but it can do little about the contents hiding in the packets. The high performance intrusion detection engine in Sygate Personal Firewall Pro monitors network traffic content, and uses pattern matching to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows and stealth port scans.
Application Layer -- Secure Component Integrity
Stop Application Hi-Jacking
It secures systems from intrusions that exploit vulnerabilities in applications to execute attacks. It verifies the integrity of every application that attempts to communicate through a fingerprint that includes a MD5 checksum. In addition to that, Sygate Personal Firewall Pro authenticates application dynamic link libraries (DLLs), preventing hostile programs that masquerade as authorized applications from compromising users’ data or system.
Operating System Layer -- Secure Process Interactions
Secure System Start-up
It is the first personal firewall that integrates meaningful operating system layer protection, guarding the legitimacy of outbound traffic. It blocks any traffic generated before its own service starts up, eliminating the brief security policy vacuum. It can automatically terminate known attacks such as Trojans, Denial of Service (DoS) Zombies. Sygate Personal Firewall Pro also has defense mechanisms that prevent malicious code/and or users from disabling or exiting the personal firewall.

In Summary
By building a multi-layered shield around a system, Sygate Personal Firewall Pro provides around-the-clock and multiplex protection for data integrity and system safety. No wonder it is the ultimate desktop security solution.

Minimum System Requirements

Pentium 133 or equivalent
32 Mb RAM (128 for Windows 2000 Server)
10 Mb free disk space
At least one network adapter or modem
TCP/IP protocol installed
Internet Explorer Version 5.0 or later

Supported Operating System

Windows 95 (OSR2 & OSR2.5)
Windows 98, 98 Second Edition
Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with SP6 or later
Windows NT 4.0 Server or Terminal Server with SP6 or later
Windows 2000 Professional, 2000 Server, Advanced Server
Windows XP Home Edition, Professional
Windows 2003 Server (32 bit version)

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Features	Benefits
Security Enhancements
Protocol Driver-Level Protection	Provide protocol driver-level detection and blocking, which prevents malicious programs, such as Trojan Horse programs, from accessing the network using their own protocol driver.
Active Response	By dynamically stealthing open ports and blocking intruders' IP temporarily, it makes a system virtually invisible to the outside world even servers likes web server or mail server are running on it.
Anti-MAC & Anti-IP Spoofing	Capable of protecting a system from MAC-Spoofing and IP-Spoofing attacks, which disable systems and/or hijack Internet sessions.
OS Fingerprint Masquerading	Prevent potential attackers from using scanning tools like Nmap to identifying the operating system on a computer. The information is often used by attackers to exploit known security vulnerabilities.
Stealth Browsing	Prevent Internet browsers revealing OS and browser version info, which can be used by attackers to exploit known security vulnerabilities.
Broadcast Traffic Filtering	Most broadcast traffic on the network is not intended for a specified system. By filtering out such traffic, it improves the security and logging of network traffic.
Server Application Blocking	Applications that act as servers are often targeted by malicious intruders. This feature can prevent applications from listening on ports without the user's knowledge. This renders a lot of Trojan Horse programs useless.
Enhanced IP Fragmentation Protection	Better shelters a system from attacks involving IP packet fragments, which may halt or even crash a system.
Enhanced DoS Protection	This feature can detect and block a wider range of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
Content Security
Application-Based IDS	Feature an application-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that more accurately identifies and blocks known attacks.
Application Security
Application DLL Authentication	In addition to application checksum verification, it authenticates application DLLs, ensuring that a malicious program cannot use a trusted applications to execute an intrusion.
Operating System Security
Pre-Service Start Protection	Block any traffic generated before its own service starts up, thus eliminating the brief security policy vacuum.
Firewall Termination Prevention	Prevent Sygate Personal Best Firewall Pro service from being stopped by a process termination operation, which can prevent malicious code and/or users from disabling it.
Auto Trojan Termination	It will automatically terminate all known Trojan Horse programs before the Trojan attempts to communicate.
Running Application Termination	Enable users to stop running applications from the user interface.
Password Protected Exit	It can be configured to require a password before exiting, preventing malicious code and/or users from exiting Sygate Personal Best Firewall Pro.