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Rudimentary help in loading and installing XG Firewall

Diane Dawson

I'm a kindergartner in this stuff.  I need some rudimentary help getting the Home version of the XG firewall onto a now wiped Lenovo laptop.  I have a usb loaded with the XG download.  How do I get it onto the Lenovo?



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    Just to be sure: XG is a firewall product. You are going to install on a laptop a firewall product without any GUI etc. 

    The GUI is used via browser connecting to this product. 

    You will have most likely only one interface, so a firewall product is not "that useful". 

  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    Thank you for your reply.  GUI, huh?  You mean as opposed to command line entry.  I have done some, remember DOS 3.1?  No of course you don't, you weren't even born then.

    I'd almost forgotten what it felt like to be mansplained to.  So here it is...

    I surmise that this particular firewall will be placed on my network to:

    * inspect traffic

    * provide email scans for incoming maliciousness and outgoing for confidential information and document attachments

    * provide VPN (virtual private network) protection for my user's web browsing, streaming, etc.

    * provide reporting on what is traversing and poking at my network

    * provide IDS/IPS services

    * contain lists of known malicious IPs and block them and allow me to enter IPs that I find suspicious or are suspicious

    * learn my network and alert me to out of ordinary activity

    So yeah, if this is what XG does then that's what I want.

    I will be using the Home XG product that is supposed to be usable on any Intel machine. I'm a sole proprietor with a scant budget and need to protect my and my client's data.

    Are you telling me that I need dual NICs and my laptop doesn't have that?

    I am also putting together an info sec program that sole proprietors and small businesses can understand and use. Your lawyer is a sole proprietor or works in a small business, do you think he has a clue what GUI is? or your dentist?

    You're right I don't have the knowledge that you do, but I will, and when I do I will be formidable; and I promise you I will ask some questions before I assume I'm dealing with a complete idiot.

  • 0 in reply to Diane Dawson

    By the way, I feel the first response was wanting you to be successful. So pointing out the hardware, cause I would tend to agree, is likely going to be a limiting factor. However, each situation is different. So, give it a try and let us know.

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