Are there any good free personal firewalls for Windows 2000?

[LordJezo]

Any suggestions?

 

[chin311]

zonealarm, free version....or pro

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: chin311
zonealarm, free version....or pro

 

[Kaervak]

ZoneAlarm. Or you could try Tiny firewall, I think the name has been changed but not to sure. I use ZoneAlarm myself and haven't had a single problem with it.

 

[syberscott]

Kerio Personal Firewall

 

[BillGates]

Sygate is a good firewall and has received excellent ratings. They have a Personal and Pro version, the Personal one being freeware. Definitely worth a look.

 

[WannaFly]

I use tiny personal firewall, its 30 trial now, but if you can find an older version, its freeware.

Ok, do you people *REALLY* believe zonealarm is a good firewall.....I have NEVER seen it do something I want, in fact, i dont even consider it a firewall....

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: syberscott
Kerio Personal Firewall

Another vote for Kerio. Didn't like Zone Alarm much.

 

[Doh!]

In order of preference:

Kerio
Tiny
Sygate
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ZoneAlarm

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: syberscott
Kerio Personal Firewall

looking at the screenshot it's almost like a clone of the tiny personal firewall free version! or vice versa... :Q

 

[Fokks]

Kerio does look alot like the old Tiny software. That was a good firewall if you knew what you were doing. ZoneAlarm I used to like back in the 2.x versions and would recommend it, but it's kinda gone downhill lately. It's been very "dumbed down" and I've also seen it cause problems on peoples systems.

 

[randomlinh]

Kerio! and yes, i believe Kerio *is* Tiny... they changed names... didn't they?

 

[43st]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
Kerio! and yes, i believe Kerio *is* Tiny... they changed names... didn't they?

I'm not sure what happened between the two but both Kerio and Tiny offer a firewall product. They look very different also.

I'm not sure if the newer Kerio products are that good. I don't like how it takes up more and more memory and offers less and less options.

 

[Citadel535]

zonealarm

 

[Doh!]

Originally posted by: Thera

Originally posted by: lnguyen
Kerio! and yes, i believe Kerio *is* Tiny... they changed names... didn't they?

I'm not sure what happened between the two but both Kerio and Tiny offer a firewall product. They look very different also.

I'm not sure if the newer Kerio products are that good. I don't like how it takes up more and more memory and offers less and less options.

Kerio was established by the original team members that designed the old Tiny firewall. Kerio is still related to Tiny as it's an affiliated company of Tiny (I think Tiny has certain % of financial investments in Kerio).