Newbie - Is Wingate for me ?

[auburnsilhouette]

Hi All,

Wingate is new to me and I am currently running a 30 day trial of it.

My reason for using Wingate was to share an internet connection over a small home network and avoid having to run 3 copies of ZoneAlarm (Virus and Firewall) software - one on each machine. It's cheaper and I'm lead to believe much better. I have had big problems with ZoneAlarm in the last year and would prefer to avoid it at all cost. Additionally I would prefer to have my machines running at their peak as opposed to virus software skimming a reasonable percentage off the top.

A few questions.
1) Can Wingate be configured to stop accessing selected domain names ?
2) I've noticed that when downloading files - mp3's etc it appears to cache to the server machine first. Is there a way to bypass this ?
3) Am I fully protected from all Internet nasties ?

I had a little trouble initially configuring the email server but that appears to be all working fine now but what I'd really like is a dummies guide for making my simple network secure with Wingate. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading and I know my network is very very small in comparison to what most people are probably using Wingate for but never the less Wingate appears to be a great solution no matter what size the network.

Cheers,

Steve Roberts.

[Nev]

Hi Steve,

Yes you are making the right decision to integrate Wingate! :-))

I guess ten years ago the same happened to me and now most of my clients [or at least the one's I continue to work for] have their networks guarded by Wingate.

It is clearly an efficient model for network protection and frees the workstations from relentless 'self analysis' of their files, oh how I hated that.

Yes you can configure filters in the services, for example the WWW proxy --> Policies --> Ban List or User rights.

Tip, enable intercepts to run all NAT WWW traffic through the proxy and apply your policies.

Yes you can disable caching, System tab --> Caching --> Enable Cache Lookups / Enable addtions to cache / Cache size.

Well protection is about as good as it gets with Wingate and the plugin KAV for malware in your email and spyware in the WWW pages.

I suggest the installation guide from the Support area and the tips in the index to this forum.

[auburnsilhouette]

Cheers Nev !

I'll check out your suggestions and also read up on that Installation doc you mentioned.

Cheers !

Steve.