Have any of you tried Online Armor, that has a free version, well it did
when I bought my licence a couple of years ago, mine runs out in 7 days but
as I've been using the built in firewall since last year I'm not going to be
renewing.
It is a pretty decent firewall and when it asks for permission to run
something at least it tells you in English just what it is and not something
cryptic that only a tech could understand. g
--
Joan Archer
http://crossstitcher.webs.com/
"Shane" wrote in message
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Mart,
I actually resumed using ZA in the last year or two - after a very long
absence! - albeit not on the main system, and it was fine up until a few
months ago when they made it nagware. Now at every boot you get an ad for
the full version (though I haven't tried it in a couple of months but I
seriously doubt they've relented meantime). Whether or not a
once-excellent product became flaky in the extreme long ago, the nagging
alone is enough to stop me - or anyone else I know of - running it today.
I guess they conclude that the model of inherent advertising by providing
a well-respected free version either doesn't work or, I suspect more
likely, the current owners simply don't hold with giving anything
whatsoever away. Now they try to have the best of both worlds by making it
a trial version thinly disguised as freeware - which I suppose is the
definition of nagware, really!
Shane
Mart wrote:
Cheers Shane, I included the link as several of my 'older' links have
either now removed the download or the link has become dead. I only
added it in case someone looks at these posts in a future life and
hopefully at least one of the links might still work. Thanks for the
update on Vista and 7 - saves me messing about. I gave up ZA years
ago due to it "screwing the kit'n'kaboodle". It became a PITA.
Mart
"Shane" wrote in message
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Mart,
Besides the pedantic point that I gave a link to Kerio 2.1.5 in the
post Mike was replying to (not that there is any harm in more than
one link! - but I do also mention that according to Secunia there
are a couple of vulnerabilities in it - hardly surprising really and
the point of which is that 2.1.5 is these days an 'on your own head
be it' choice - so definately not a pedantic one), no, it doesn't
work in Vista or Win7. It simply won't install. But if you have the
machine to comfortably run either of those, the best modern freeware
firewalls - Comodo and OnlineArmor - are not a problem. And they
are, of course, regularly updated but without screwing the
kit'n'kaboodle the way ZoneAlarm does. Shane
Mart wrote:
Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 is still (as I write) available at :-
http://www.321download.com/LastFreew...keriopf215.zip
Always a good one and works fine on XP - if you feel you need it
(Never tried it beyond XP but don't see why it shouldn't work in
Vista or 7)
Mart
"Mike M" wrote in message
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Shane,
To be honest I actually meant to say Kerio but the name went right
out of head and I came up with Comodo instead.
I know we differ here but personally I wouldn't bother with a
firewall when running Win Me behind a NAT/SPI enabled router.
--
Mike
Shane wrote:
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