extragear1

Hello:

We've been running a simple peer to peer network for many years. We have eight systems in total on the network with five MOM seats. This is combined with the appropriate hardware firewall (this being a router with built in security), establishing password protected user accounts on each machine, assigning rights to the MOMWIN folder, making sure each workstation has its own anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-adware, and software firewall.

One of our problems from time to time is configuring the software firewall to work with MOM. If a workstation is running XP pro and uses the built in Microsoft firewall, this usually runs fine with MOM. Certain versions of Norton Personal firewall run fine, others dont. This applies also to Zone alarm.

My questions is, do you run a software firewall on your workstations? (A tech at MOM said that a software firewall will slow MOM down.) If so, what causes the least headache?

I would also be interested in anyones experience running Zone Alarm security suite on a workstation. This was recently installed on one workstation. And even after trying to configure it to work with MOM, MOM opens very slowly.

Thanks