Re: Now that Sygate's gone, can anyone recommend a free firewall?
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Re: Now that Sygate's gone, can anyone recommend a free firewall?

From: Anonymous <keith@microsoft.discussions.com>
Date: Wed Dec 07 2005 - 15:08:25 CET

louise wrote:
> Keith wrote:
>> Do you have any Anti-Trojan type software installed? Many thousands
>> of computers worldwide are compromised ,yours may be one. I
>> recommend highly a Anti-Trojan program BOClean 420 from
>> www.nsclean.com . Regardless of your firewall you should be using
>> something like this one. I run it, it's not free but money spent is
>> saved by using MS free Windows XP Firewall.
> I've had my AV catch several trojans (NOD32).
>
> Do I still need BoClean or can I just use the MS Firewall?
>
> TIA
>
> Louise

I also use AVG7 antivirus. BOC only detects nasties as they attempt to run.
It prevents Gibson leaktest from running and deletes it, plus host of
zombies and keyloggers that antivirus doesnt see. I rate it 10/10.
Received on Sun Dec 11 14:24:37 2005