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Re: Personal Firewall: Revisited
de ellis_jay 05/28/2006 11:48
Dennis Roark wrote:
> 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
http://www.oldversion.com/
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