If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Free Fire Wall for WinMe
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 ... 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 ... 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 |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
New Fire Fox Update | Alias[_14_] | General | 42 | August 6th 07 08:34 AM |
Loss of free disk space due to .cab files on WinME | Dave | General | 1 | September 19th 04 04:22 PM |
Wanted: simple, free firewall for WinME | Terry | General | 7 | August 2nd 04 12:54 AM |
Fire Wall Recommendation | Wayne R. Russ | General | 14 | July 14th 04 05:21 PM |
Fire Wall? | JD | General | 6 | May 20th 04 07:15 AM |