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Old February 23rd 10, 03:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Shane[_14_]
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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