Mike M wrote:
AAH wrote:

I am trying to find free version of Fire Wall
for WindowsMe not very completed and compact in size?
Thanks for help?

Personally I feel a firewall to be unnecessary since you are behind
your Home Hub firewall. So sorry I don't have sufficient experience
to recommend a suitable free offering for Win Me but you may want to
have a look at Comodo which I think still supports Win Me. Shane,
Noel or one of the other regulars will probably be able to provide a
more useful suggestion.

I checked the requirements for Comodo earlier, Mike, and it only mentioned
NT versions. Personally I'd use Kerio 2.1.5 still were I still running Me
http://www.oldversion.com/download_K...all_2.1.5.html.

According to Secunia there are one or two vulnerabilities in 2.1.5 that, of
course, are never going to be addressed now, but my own feeling is if you're
online with a 9x version today, you need to learn to type with fingers
crossed anyway.

I supposed AAH meant 'complicated' rather than 'completed' and wonder what
*that* requirement is specifically. Of course one could still get versions
of ZoneAlarm that support 9x, too, e.g. on oldversion.com, though I suspect
they are more vulnerable than Kerio 2.1.5, today. I seem to recall you had
the choice - not that I ever used it - to install ZA in a 'novice'
configuration. Otherwise both require you to allow or deny access, and both
in my experience had glitches that required 'expert'-ise to fix, though
Kerio, if the config files had been backed up, was easiest to debuggerize.
And I still have my batch that backed the config up every boot.

I'll respond to your other replies on the morrow, Mike. I've been
rearranging partitions (to put W7 back - purely out of boredom!). I
have just finished resizing and now have 14 partitions on 2 disks and as
Rosie has just announced her return, I'm going to bed!

Shane