Personal firewall for Win2k

From: Alex (response_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 12/03/03 

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:09:02 -0500

Hello.

I'm trying to decide what firewall to use on my underpowered Win2K machine.

Previously, I had AtGuard on Win98SE.
Well, the hard drive died, I no longer have the program and the key and there is nobody to call (maybe it is time to move to something more modern anyway).

I tried Tiny 5. Couldn't figure it out - very complex and no help to speak of. Deleted it.
Tried ZoneAlarm next. That, on the other hand, seems too simple and inflexible.

I liked AtGuard's balance between configurability and ease of use.
Also the fact that it was easy on the resources (ran it on a P/200 with 64MB).

So, what personal firewall will provide with a similar experience to AtGuard in terms of configurability and low resource usage (using a K6-2/400 with 256MB now) while being able to cope with the recent attacks as well?

Thank you!

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