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Re: Personal Firewall: Revisited
de Dennis Roark 05/28/2006 07:58
AlleyCat <alley@aol.com> wrote in
news:MPG.1ec6e258afe386d0989745@news-server.jam.rr.com:
>
> I know this has been discussed recently but... I have use ZoneAlarm
> for
> many years and have found it to work very well. The only "problem" I
> have with it, is that it uses a lot of memory (vsmon.exe). I
> uninstalled it and ran Outpost for a few minutes. I must have had it
> configured wrongly, because my browser had difficulty opening a
> webpage. I temporarily disabled Outpost, and the browser worked fine.
> I enabled Outpost and the browser worked, but only because I already
> had it open and functioning.
>
> Is there a good free "lightweight" firewall title? I've heard of
> Sygate, but will it "hog" resources as ZoneAlarm did? Also, does
> anyone have it and be able to post it to a binaries group or email it
> to me? Remove Zoom Zoom from the address. Thanks for any help.
>
> zoomzoommx6_car@hotmail.com
>
> Al
The older freeware Kerio version 2.1.5 is excellent and free of the
bloat in later versions. It can be had through Last Freeware site:
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/downloads321/keriopf215.zip
or,
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html#Kerio%20Personal%
20Firewall
-- Dennis Roark
denro@sio.NOSPAMmidco.net
Starting Points:
http://sio.midco.net/denro/www