Re: Best firewall for dialup on older computers

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Wildcatboy Premium,Mod join:2000-10-30 Toronto, ON Host: Security Product V.. Security	reply to nikeherc Re: Best firewall for dialup on older computers How computer literate is your friend? He/she seems to be a novice otherwise he/she wouldn't get infected like that and if that's the case you might as well forget Kerio or LnS. He's going to stare at it forever not knowing what to do or how to configure it. A router is out of the question too since he's using dialup. If you can run XP on that machine, the XP's built in firewall may be your best option. Otherwise you may want to look for something like an old version of Zone Alarm. Version 2.6.362 is my suggestion as it has no vulnerabilities worth mentioning and does the job perfectly. Anything after that became bloated with stuff that have nothing to do with a firewall's job and created newer vulnerabilities that they've had to keep patching to this day. -- You can catch the Devil, but you can't hold him long.
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jvmorris I Am The Man Who Was Not There. Premium,MVM join:2001-04-03 Reston, VA	said by Wildcatboy : . . . . A router is out of the question too since he's using dialup. . . . Well, there's at least the SMC Barricade 7004 ABR and the 7008 ABR (and I think there are a coupla others that can be used with dial-up). I used the 7004 ABR for my last year on dial-up (and all of our software firewalls became vewy, vewy quiet. ) -- Regards, Joseph V. Morris
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MillieSecond6 join:2005-04-25	reply to Wildcatboy said by Wildcatboy : Otherwise you may want to look for something like an old version of Zone Alarm. Version 2.6.362 is my suggestion as it has no vulnerabilities worth mentioning and does the job perfectly. Older version can be found here: »www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm I did not feel like looking for this older version at Zone Labs.
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