Re: Sygate or ZoneAlarm (free versions)

From: Tech Zero (spamnet-feb_at_dragonfur.ca)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: 5 Feb 2004 18:43:54 GMT

The voice of "Mike" drifted in on the cyber-winds,
from the sea of virtual chaos...

> I am doing a PC rebuild Friday and was wondering what the best
> firewall to use would be?
>
> Win ME using IE 6 as a browser - mainly cos SWMBO wants to use
> RoboForn. Netscape being an alternative, but in my experience it
> takes forever to load (even on a 1.3 Ghz Athlon with half a GIG of
> memory)
>
> At the minute using a modem for dialup so no router etc, but will
> be upgrading to broadband later this year
>
> Using AVG anti virus, my main priority is full protection, and a
> configurable pop-up killer

Have you though about using Kerio? It's quite configurable, and the
footprint of version 2.1.5 is relatively small.

  http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html (v4.x)

As for IE, you can still ditch it. Mozilla Firebird loads quite fast
(same core) even on a lowly 600MHz PC, and includes a built in pop-up
blocker. With the addition of the Adblock & User Agent Switcher
extensions you can almost eliminate your "Local Proxy Filter" from the
setup too...

  http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
  http://adblock.mozdev.org/
  http://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/firebird/useragentswitcher/ 

-- 
The Tech Zero, Maxwell C.G. Pollare

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