Re: a couple of questions from a newbie to this group

From: billh (NoMail_at_Post2Newsgroup.Pls)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:27:44 -0500

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Now I, too, am looking to replace Norton's firewall. There are a lot of
nice features but I can't keep having my connection go partially or wholly
dead once every day or two. Sygate has their freebie Personal Firewall
(http://smb.sygate.com) but it seems too crippled so you'll end up getting
their Pro version, anyway.

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What do you consider to be crippled in the free version that should be
available for significantly safer operation?

I use freebie Sygate behind a Linksys router. I feel it (or the combination)
does a good job and Sygate doesn't seem to be a giant resource hog; it is
also fairly easy to understand.

Thanks,
Billh

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