Recommendations for a free Win2000 firewall?

3 May 2009 5:16 AM

zekeman

Was happy with ZoneAlarm, but they've recently quit supporting Windows 2000
with updates. Anyone have recommendations for a rough equivalent, free of
course? Thanks in advance.

3 May 2009 12:10 PM

Airman

zekeman wrote:

> Was happy with ZoneAlarm, but they've recently quit supporting Windows 2000
> with updates. Anyone have recommendations for a rough equivalent, free of
> course? Thanks in advance.

Kerio Personal Firewall
Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 (last freeware version)
OS: Win98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
Kerio Personal Firewall is a small and easy to use system designed for
protecting a personal computer against hacker attacks and data leaks. It
is based on the ICSA certified technology used in the WinRoute firewall.
The firewall itself runs as a background service, using a special
low-level driver loaded into the system kernel. This driver is placed at
the lowest possible level above the network hardware drivers. Therefore,
it has absolute control over all passing packets and is able to ensure
complete protection of the system it is installed on.

http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html

3 May 2009 2:44 PM

Stan Weiss

Airman wrote:
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>
> zekeman wrote:
> > Was happy with ZoneAlarm, but they've recently quit supporting Windows 2000
> > with updates. Anyone have recommendations for a rough equivalent, free of
> > course? Thanks in advance.
>
> Kerio Personal Firewall
> Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 (last freeware version)
> OS: Win98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
> Kerio Personal Firewall is a small and easy to use system designed for
> protecting a personal computer against hacker attacks and data leaks. It
> is based on the ICSA certified technology used in the WinRoute firewall.
> The firewall itself runs as a background service, using a special
> low-level driver loaded into the system kernel. This driver is placed at
> the lowest possible level above the network hardware drivers. Therefore,
> it has absolute control over all passing packets and is able to ensure
> complete protection of the system it is installed on.
>
> http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html

This is what I use and am very happy with it.

6 May 2009 11:26 PM

Roger Fink

Airman wrote:
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> zekeman wrote:
>> Was happy with ZoneAlarm, but they've recently quit supporting
>> Windows 2000 with updates. Anyone have recommendations for a rough
>> equivalent, free of course? Thanks in advance.
>
> Kerio Personal Firewall
> Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 (last freeware version)
> OS: Win98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
> Kerio Personal Firewall is a small and easy to use system designed for
> protecting a personal computer against hacker attacks and data leaks.
> It
> is based on the ICSA certified technology used in the WinRoute
> firewall.
> The firewall itself runs as a background service, using a special
> low-level driver loaded into the system kernel. This driver is placed
> at
> the lowest possible level above the network hardware drivers.
> Therefore,
> it has absolute control over all passing packets and is able to ensure
> complete protection of the system it is installed on.
>
> http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html

Newer isn't always better (c.f. Windows Vista), but I think in this case it
is:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_sunbelt_personal_firewall/
Kerio v. 4.2.2 is listed on the right.

19 May 2009 9:29 PM

Rick Chauvin

"Roger Fink" <f***@manana.org> wrote in message
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> Newer isn't always better (c.f. Windows Vista), but I think in this case
> it is:
> http://www.filehippo.com/download_sunbelt_personal_firewall/
> Kerio v. 4.2.2 is listed on the right.

Why else do you like 4.2.2 Roger?

4 May 2009 12:13 AM

nomail

On Sat, 2 May 2009 22:16:01 -0700, zekeman
<zeke***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Was happy with ZoneAlarm, but they've recently quit supporting Windows 2000
>with updates. Anyone have recommendations for a rough equivalent, free of
>course? Thanks in advance.

Just keep using an older version - just as effective and less
bloat :-)

4 May 2009 7:28 AM

zekeman

Cheers gents -- first-hand satisfied reports are exactly what I was looking
for. For "nomail", continuing using my existing ZoneAlarm is what I've been
doing, but aren't updates needed to counter new attack/infiltration
strategies? I know not near as much as for an antivirus program, but it seems
firewall updates are something every provider does. Is that a misperception?