Re: Most preferred free firewall??
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Re: Most preferred free firewall??

From: Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@seppig.de>
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 13:19:12 CEST

Half_Light wrote:

> F-Secure's Interent Security 2006. It's not free but it is good and is
> probably worth what it costs.

*g*

> This is an all encompassing firewall,

means: an extremely lousy host-based packet filter

> spam blocker

means: destroys secure connections to your mail server

> anti-virus

This is actually about the only good thing, but it's also available as
stand-alone product.

> anti-spyware

the most recent bullshit

> and even child blocker suite.

Yeah sure.

Hey, did you forget to tell about the unusable GUI and service modules
enclosing the functions of this product? Hell, a demo version of FAV2006
updated itself to a full version of FIS2006 and stopped working because
of a missing key.
Received on Mon May 1 01:04:29 2006