[AccessD] OT: free Sygate personal

Another free firewall published on the zdnet story is Jetico
http://www.jetico.com/jpfirewall.htm


On 12/1/05, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> Lambert,
> Good story!
>
> Illustrates the reason for having an outgoing firewall perfectly.
>
> Unfortunately, Microsoft's built in firewall doesn't protect against
> outgoing threats. So, unless you are abasolutely sure that you can't
> possibly have any worries about malware then you are better off having a
> firewall that can prevent incoming and outgoing traffic.
>
> The Sygate Personal Firewall was great for home PCs, for which it was free.
> You could purchase a license for it for your business PCs too and then,
> IIRC, it was called "Pro" added a few items and the ability to get support.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert
>
> Curious. I would have said that the firewall *in a router* protects you from
> port scanners and the like trying to get IN. But what it does nothing about
> is protecting you from programs on your system that want to call home.
>
> For instance I was looking for a freeware file splitter that could handle
> multi-gigabyte files. One that I tried looked ok "on paper" until I tried
> using it. Then my software firewall advised me that two spyware programs
> came along with the package, one was intending to report home on every
> website that I visited. Needless to say all three products were removed
> (sorry I didn't keep a note of which they were).
>
> Without a software firewall I would have been a victim of today's mallware
> brigade.
>
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