Free Firewalls
Hi Fred, What [about] free firewalls these days?
I had Zone Alarm but it conflicted so much with Norton AV or other things on my Win98SE box. Sygate was much better, but it is no longer being supported in the free edition. I have abandoned NAV for NOD32 which plays much nicer with my system, Maybe I should give ZA another try?
Thanks, Joe Salerno
ZoneAlarm is probably the path of least resistance--- it's a good, free firewall, and is readily available. But there are many other options--- including the last free version of the Sygate firewall, which is available as "abandonware" on a number of download sites. No, it's no longer supported, but all that really means is that no new features will be added. It still works as-is, of course.
This page lists 10 free or free-to-try firewalls, and includes a link to a Sygate Personal Firewall download site: http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/firewalls.shtml Note the "Jetico" freeware firewall, which supports all versions of Windows, including Win98.
This page ( http://www.hackfix.org/software/firewall.html ) lists even more Win98-friendly firewalls, including Kerio, Conseal, Outpost, and others.
And in the unlikely event that none of the many options
available in the above two links will work for you, this general search will
turn up even more:
http://www.google.com/search?q=firewall+win98+98+free
(BTW: See #10 in this issue for a related topic.)
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