Re: Outpost/Win95 conflict

From: David Dalton (dalton_at_nfld.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:30:54 -0330

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:04:53 -0330, David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com>
wrote:

>A while ago when I asked about firewalls for Windows 95,
>Duane Arnold replied:
>
>> Kerio 2.15, Outpost, ZA, and Sygate all have free versions that I would
>> think would run on any Win 9'x O/S.
>
>> You'll have to try them and pick the one that best meets your needs.
>
>Kerio 2.15 (or is it Kerio 2.1.5?) doesn't support Windows 95.
>
>Then I tried Outpost 1.0/FREE and that installed fine but
>now there are some problems so I figured I would ask
>here (since there is no tech support for FREE) in case
>some of you experienced the same problems a few
>years ago.
>
>First it starts up fine on Windows startup but then
>complains about a missing DLL file aupdate.dll
>but then seems to run fine without it.
>
>Then, the main problem is that when shutting
>down Windows 95, three out of four times
>it hangs and thus the next time Windows 95
>is started scandisk must be run, and my niece
>is getting pissed off at me for installing the
>firewall now (but it has reduced the incidence
>of inserted supposed typos by hackers a lot).
>
>The one time in four it does shut down there is a
>an error, repeated twice of the form "this
>program has done an illegal operation and
>will be shut down, and you have to click on
>Close twice to get Windows to shut down".
>
>But the Outpost web site says Outpost FREE
>does support Windows 95 which their
>commercial version does not.
>
>So anyway I was wondering if any of you
>had come across that problem before and
>knew of a solution. If not I will uninstall it
>next weekend and may then try ZA or
>Sygate as Duane suggests, or do a web
>search for Windows 95 firewall, perhaps.

Anybody want to comment on Windows 95
use of ZA, Sygate, or any of the products
listed on

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windows9x/firewall.mspx
?

DD

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