What's your favorite software firewall?

We’ve been running a Sunpoll on our corporate site last week, asking the following questions:

What's your position on Desktop Firewalls on all your user's workstations?

	WinXP SP2 is good enough for me
	Already run a third party firewall on the desktop
	Don't have one, but want to/should have one
	Don't have one, not interested
	Other

The results were as follows:

WinXP SP2 is good enough for me
	28%	403 votes
Already run a third party firewall on the desktop
	51%	725 votes
Don't have one, but want to/should have one
	4%	70 votes
Don't have one, not interested
	9%	133 votes
Other
	5%	76 votes
Total: 1407 votes

Note that we think that these results would bias toward IT managers, because a) the way the question was asked and b) because a lot of IT people come to our site.  Again, without putting more science out there, it’s really more of a gimmick.  

But that leads to the next question — what’s your favorite software firewall?

I got a list off of www.antionline.com and started culling it to represent current popular products:

• Sygate  (recently acquired by Symantec)
• Zone Alarm 
• Outpost 
• Kerio 
• Tiny 
• Norton 
• BlackIce
• McAfee
  

Let me know your thoughts.

 

Alex Eckelberry