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Symantec Acquires Sygate

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

August 19, 2005, 2:45 PM

Symantec, creator of the popular antivirus software Norton, purchased security firm Sygate earlier this week in a deal that will add to the software maker's already impressive line of acquisitions in the past year. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Previous to the Sygate acquisition, Symantec acquired TurnTide, Brightmail, On Technology and SafeWeb, as well as storage-software maker Veritas. Sygate makes software that ensures compliance with security regulations, as well as software to govern access to network devices.

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By isochar

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 8:38 AM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I love Sygate's personal firewall. :(

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By robmanic44

posted Aug 21, 2005 - 5:12 PM

In real estate parlance: there goes the neighborhood. Like paying mansion prices for a chicken coop.

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By Budgie29

edited Aug 21, 2005 - 9:43 AM

Norton and Symantec software is

1 over priced
2 riddiled with bugs
3 you cannot uninstall it propperlly without
doing a clean reinstall of windows

stop moaning and groaning and look around
u will find some execillant software writers out their whom produce packages such as

Antivirus Try Using

Panda Antivirus ... Execillant AV but GUI Sucks
KAV I've been using it since V3
it does its job ,V4.5 GUI Exicillant
but V5 is some what lacking .. V6 Looks and feels good but its still in Beta .

Firewall

their is only one to go for and thats OUTPOST firrewall Pro is Costs £ but its worth it

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By PhoenixPath

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 10:50 AM

AV:

NOD32 - $40 OTF, $20/yr subscription. Best AV known to man.

Firewall:

Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall - Free.

Been using both for years with Zero issues.

NOD32 is lightweight, fast, and can catch most viruses in the wild before they've even been added to your 'database'.

ZoneAlarm can block both incoming and outgoing connections and is one of the best application-based firewalls to-date.

Both are frequently updated.

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By rpavl

posted Aug 21, 2005 - 5:37 AM

Gobble Gobble Gobble up the good products, lets see what Symantec can feed Sygate to Bloat it up like a balloon.

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By merlin666

posted Aug 21, 2005 - 12:30 PM

Symantec has integrated many formerly outstanding products into their suites, which may have caused bloat. Unfortunately, this was always accompanied by a substantial REDUCTION of unique and useful features in the former stand-alone products.

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By Black-Wolf

posted Aug 21, 2005 - 1:52 AM

F-Secure is even better!!

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By RedBoar

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 11:16 PM

What reactionary and childish comments. Sygate is not going to drop in quality from this acquisition, if anything Symantec's products may inprove. I've been using SPF for about two years, it works great and if Symantec turns it into a pile of crap, so what? Windows Vista will be out by that time and good luck on being productive with that.

By the way, I tried installing Kerio 2.1.5 and 4.2, the former blew up and the latter slows my connection to the Wolfenstein ET servers to a crawl.

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By davewalden

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 10:23 AM

RedBoar.... you are such a hypocrit. You call the previous poster's comments "reactionary and childish" How is your comment, "Windows Vista will be out by that time and good luck on being productive with that," any less reactionary or childish?

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By Tenoq

posted Aug 21, 2005 - 11:40 PM

Who are you kidding? Symantec has proven time and time again that it has the greatest skill in destroying what was once good software. Sygate isn't bad at the moment, but it's not going to stay that way.

And your issues with Kerio seem to be a user problem. After using it on hundreds of configurations, I have had no persistent issues like the ones you have experienced. But Kerio does require a little know-how. It's not ZoneAlarm. :P

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By RedBoar

edited Aug 23, 2005 - 4:51 AM

It's obviously not SPF which is what I still use and works great with auto. configuration. Can you be specific about Kerio settings for Wolfenstein ET?

As for my "astoundingly mature" comments about Vista - do you see Linux naming its OS after the way it looks?

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By wincement

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 11:25 PM

Yes, we are all childish in our comments. Yet your comment about Vista's productivity was astoundingly mature.

So I guess since the PC world will be coming to an end, what's the use right? Let's just forget about PC security and enjoy the last few months of productivity we have.

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By httpd.confused

posted Aug 21, 2005 - 8:01 PM

Nail, meet hammer. Good job!

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By coover

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 8:00 PM

There goes another decent freeware, the Sygate Firewall, which was at least as good as Zone Alarm. Symantec, whose software year after year seems to get worse and worse, while the price goes up and up, will not allow this software to be given away free.

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By merlin666

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 1:56 PM

It seems like Symantec is focused on the corporate security level with this acquisition. It will be interesting to see where they go with the personal firewall product. I used to use AtGuard firewall that Symantec bought in 1999 and the 2005 Norton Firewall does not look like it has changed much since then. Hopefully the Sygate technology will bring the long-overdue update.

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By iknowyouknow

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 11:26 AM

I agree with MjM1010101 symantec is pants, I bought there internet security suite, every day it shows an alert "microsoft PRinti Spooler is trying to access the internet, you click block it.. it reappears, you click allow it.. it reappears.. its basically crap. As for the CPU load, well thats like the pits also.. terrible software , and now they will no doubt add more bloat to sygate, an otherwise good company.. I weep for the future

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By mjm01010101

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 8:15 AM

Symantec is having a panic attack. MS enters their market, they freak out and go on a buying rampage.

My personal opinion is Symantec sucks. I stopped using them years ago. Some of their AV/security products require 5 or 6 reboots after updating to current versions!! I'm not exaggerating! And they still suck after it's all said and done!

No problems with Trend.

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By GoodThings2Life

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 7:34 AM

First of all, a confession-- I stopped using the consumer versions of their products back in 2003 when their products started having a terrible nack of corrupting themselves just because of a failed LiveUpdate download/install as well as because of the lack of a "CLEAN" way to uninstall them (they leave behind hundreds of registry remnants). Don't get me started on how much I absolutely despise their Internet Security products...............

Instead, however, I do rely on the corporate versions of their tools-- Symantec Antivirus 7.6 until last summer, then 9.0 for the last year.

I have to point out an observation that I've seen in their products--- for consumer versions: Odd-yeared versions (2001,2003,2005) are buggy as all get out while even-yeared (2002,2004,hopefully 2006?) versions are decent. On the corporate side the opposite is true... 7.x and 9.x are great, but 8.x and 10.0 seem to really be lacking in stability.

Sygate on the other hand has been releasing products for years that I love... I first discovered them with Sygate 3.0 -- no other name... just plain Sygate 3.0-- back in the day when the only thing they did was create a "gateway" service on Windows 98 and earlier systems (the equivilent of Internet Connection Sharing). It was an awesome product. Then I used their firewall for a while once ZoneAlarm started becoming bloated and since they never did fix their database-configuration corruption issues. Again, a great product.

Symantec buying Sygate is a bad thing for Sygate, but a good thing for Symantec. Symantec may suck at writing installers, and they may suck at writing uninstallers, and they may not be very efficient at giving the user configurable options in a simple manner.... but they do write really good antivirus software.

Since they currently suck at Internet Security and Firewalls, buying Sygate gives them a product that they can release in their name and be incredibly proud of. Symantec Firewall/Internet Security can actually become something decent.

My fear with these mergers is always the handling of the purchased company's employees. I would love to see Sygate's developers integrate with Symantec and teach them how to do it right.

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By MoRpHeUs2003

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 8:32 AM

I pretty much agree with everything your saying but I think 2003 was their best year. After that it went downhill. I work in a computer shop and i see it on a day to day basis.

MoRpHeUs2003

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By DefconZer0

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 5:57 AM

Why this big debate ? the solution is very simple , and only takes 3 steps :

1- Download linux
2- remove Windows
3- install linux

After that , i doubt any of you will post here :)

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By MoRpHeUs2003

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 8:34 AM

DefconZer0,
moving from windows to linux is a big transition as some hardware is not supported. You really want posts starting, Id rather try and remove norton than to try and recompile the Linux Kernel.

MoRpHeUs2003

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By Mark Gillespie

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 4:12 AM

I doubt many of them will be posting, as they are spending all their time trying to get their wireless card supported under Linux, or messing with some obscure runlevel or PPP script, just to get connected...

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By GoodThings2Life

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 8:13 PM

A 3-step program, eh? Of course the reality is that just like all 3-step programs, they always turn into 12-steps:

1- Choose a distribution of Linux that looks good to YOU from the Baskin-Linux 31 flavors (OK, so the Baskin-Robins 31 is a joke, but you get my point). Keeping in mind that you can't base your choice on what people recommend, because deep-down the choice has to be a personal soul-searching event to find a flavor that suits your needs AND your usability preferences (see next steps).

2- Pray that you have broadband.

3- Download said Linux flavor (usually multiple CD-sized downloads [600-700MB] in order to get it all)...

4- Pray you downloaded the ISO versions so that you can just burn to CD and go rather than figure out how to make the CD's boot.

5- Make backups of your data files or kiss them good-bye.

6- Record said flavor of Linux to CD's.

7- Boot from the first CD and pray that setup actually recognizes your hardware and works... and follow the unnecessarily complicated setup instructions to decide how to partition and format your hard drive (thus eliminating Windows and anything else you had)

8- Pray that your flavor actually supports your hardware in GUI mode or that you're comfortable with a super-amazing, powerful command prompt that can do anything and everything--- if you know how to spell and use all the commands... and parameters... etc etc.

9- Select from dozens, sometimes even hundreds of "packages" to install.

10- Complain and whine and cuss about how Windows should have all this stuff too while cursing their name for every time they try and you think they're violating antitrust agreements.

11- Boot into Linux and enjoy the extremely secure, extremely functional environment you've created for yourself.

12- Cuss, scream, and pound on things because you can't really use any of it without ripping out hair because of the downright stupid GUI environment or the complicated command line. Afterall, "yum check-update" only works on Fedora Core to check for updates, but if you want to install them you must use "yum update" (keeping in mind the irony that "Updates are YUMmy" (and there are dozens of them) even though we all whine that Windows releases them and it ticks us off.

*Edited grammar/spelling errors.

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By Sir Ripster

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 5:53 PM

ROFL.... GoodThings2Life

thats the truest & funniest thing i've read in a very long time...

You made my day.... NO Really You did !

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By twosheds

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 11:02 AM

God bless Linux evangelists. Havta agree with GoodThings2Life - whatever way the OS wars go, this is something you'll NEVER see:

OS MARKET SHARE:
Windows - 10%
Apple OSX - 10%
Linux Flavour(1) - 10%
Linux Flavour(2) - 10%
Linux Flavour(3) - 10%
Linux Flavour(4) - 10%
Linux Flavour(5) - 10%
Linux Flavour(6) - 10%
Linux Flavour(7) - 10%
Other - 10%

Unless someone makes a version of Linux that is as user-friendly as(preferably MORE user-friendly than)Windows, there will be a wonderful Darwinian diversity among Linux distros.

And one great dominant species kicking all their arses.

And if Linux DOES manage such a feat, it will become...Microsoft Windows. It's like proportional representation and communism: great theory that sucks in the real world.

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By ThoreauHD

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 5:00 AM

It's not good practice to have a firewall on windows or on the same box as the client. But since everyone can't afford to have another pc as a router/firewall/IDS/trojan scanner then software on the client is the only alternative. And among those, I think sygate was the best on windows.

It's to bad sygate will become bloated and crap now, but what can you do. If you have another junk pc sitting around, you can pop in linux based IPCOP and let that protect your entire network. It's free, unlike the stuff you see above. Just an alternative as the screws get tightened around windows folks.

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By dejavu

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 1:23 AM

Anyone tried Netveda Safety Net? It Seems a good, light and free alternative! Only the GUI has no XP elegance, like earliers versions of Winrar, but I Think the program has a good future!

www.netveda.com

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By Island44

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 10:58 PM

Now that Symantec has bought Sygate I hope SPF code is not going to be entrenched throughout your system like other Symantec products.

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By integrii

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 11:55 PM

That WAS a great firewall. GG norton for ruining the internet a little more. you only fool the stupid people, you asshats.

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By crashoverride

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 11:30 PM

oh farewall Sygate how fondly we knew you.

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By cousinkix1953

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 10:39 PM

I quit using SYMANTEC a couple of years ago. Why waste money on this crap. Fifty bucks a year, for weekly updates isn't good enough! All of that activation BS only encourages me to change brands or use older versions of a product.

You can get the home editions of AVG or AVAST! anti-vurus for nothing. The latter updates almost daily and finds more crap that NORTON always missed.

There are other firewall options including the Microsoft Windows(XP) and ZomeAlarm.

I got rid of my McAFee software too. It's another hassle for different reasons...

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By MoRpHeUs2003

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 8:41 AM

Personally,
I think if its free its been hacked. Easier for a hacker to get his hands on avg than Norton. Personally at home, I use Mcafee. I find Mcafee to be perfect for my needs. It picks any virus's that i have come across. One important note though about antivirus software. "The latter updates almost daily and finds more crap that NORTON always missed". I work in a computer store and I can tell you how many times I have cursed on AVG for not picking up virus's that norton did. I work at this stuff all week long its a full time job take it from me STAY AWAY FROM AVG. I have heard people say they like AVG, but i do not. Id rather put up with norton than put that crap on my computer. Its just personal preference though, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

MoRpHeUS2003

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By morriscox

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 11:29 AM

>> You can get the home editions of AVG or
>> AVAST! anti-vurus for nothing. The latter
>> updates almost daily and finds more crap
>> that NORTON always missed.

> I work in a computer store and I can tell you > how many times I have cursed on AVG for not
> picking up virus's that norton did.

Seems you misunderstood. The use of "latter" refers to Avast!, not AVG.

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By coover

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 8:11 PM

"Zome" Alarm? "Zome Alarm"?

????????????????????????????????

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By twosheds

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 9:46 PM

There goes the neighbourhood.

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By irdepesca572

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 9:39 PM

Damn Symantec is taking over the world! O_O

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By fourte3n

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 7:49 PM

well there goes a good firewall.

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By seier

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 7:29 PM

The author doesn't seem to know jack shtt about computers. "Makers for the AV software Norton"? Please! Norton is one of their product lines there are tons of titles that fall under that name. Furthermore the title isn't Norton it's "Norton Anti-Virus".

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By Aires

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 6:58 AM

Duh! Norton Firewall ring any bells??

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By zridling

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 6:18 PM

Caleb's right below, Agnitum's OutPost Firewall Pro is in a whole 'nother league. Symantec just paid for Sygate's funeral.

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By PhoenixPath

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:30 PM

Crap.

Didn't need to see this. Now the maker of my beloved software router is dead. Yeah, they killed Sygate Office Network ages ago, but for *anything* pre-XP-sp1, it kicked ass.

*sigh*

Oh well. Time to go spread some more wild Google rumors. (I hear they're creating a Web-Based office suite now)

w00t!

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By wincement

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:49 PM

"Oh well. Time to go spread some more wild Google rumors. (I hear they're creating a Web-Based office suite now)"

lol

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By Banquo

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:23 PM

Peter Norton made some great utilities back in the days of MS-DOS, or we thought he did. Turned out some other guy wrote most of it and he was just a marketing nerd. Then Symantec becomes huge, their software is written by others and becomes bloated and more horrible with each new version. I guess it finally became so bad that instead of trying to write it themselves they are buying out other companies so they can assimilate their programs. The really sad thing is that people actually continue to use Symantec products.

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By MoRpHeUs2003

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 8:44 AM

I Agree, its like the Borg trying to assimilate its victims lol.

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By GimieGimieGimie

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:19 PM

We're really ****ed now!

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By jordenpro

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 5:24 PM

Well after reading all of your wonderful fan posts for Symantec's new partner...It makes me think.

In a perfect world:

Symantec would learn from Sygate's technology. Maybe their firewall would now offer real protection, anti-spoofing, prevent .dll injection, real configuration options.

Since my membership runs out in a month, I have to decide, will I use outpost? Will I keep the product in which I soo much love and relie on? Why in the name of Bill Gates would any purchase Symantec products which give them the money to ruin their competition?

I've already decided... RIP sygate.

Note: I rather use Windows Firewall than ZoneAlarm.

captainahab, the nice thing about Sygate is they did have updates. They updated trojan signatures, to make the users job easier.

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By captainahab

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:10 PM

Why not use Sygate 5.6? You can still download it and use it as much as you like.

Firewalls are not like antiviruses... you don't need to have constant updates.

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By MoRpHeUs2003

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 8:46 AM

Yeah but your not going to be able to do that forever, remember when vista comes out. You really think its going to be supported. Don't think so.

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By wat0114

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:22 PM

Good point captainahab! In fact, just burn it to disk in case the d/load is eventually killed.

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By Aires

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 5:09 PM

Well that's fvcking brilliant! I switched from Norton to Sygate because Norton got more bloated and more bloated and ended up more trouble than it was worth. Now they've gone and bought up Sygate?! Brilliant! How long will it take them to fvck that up I wonder. Now I have to move from Sygate to another!!

(I apologise for my bad language but this really p1sses me off!).

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By paul-white

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 12:54 PM

Me too. :o)

I just didn't want to continue with Symantec's Firewall and AntiVirus offerings because although they looked nice they were a pain to install and when necessary re-install. So many part-downloads and re-boots. I now use AVG and Sygate and thought I had escaped the nasty clutches of Symantec as soon as I un-installed the pre-installed version of Norton Security 2005 on my brand new PC.

Now where is that crystal ball I had so I can look into the future to see where I should go next. ;o)

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By Inc73

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 4:06 PM

SPF (Sygate Personal Firewall) was a crap? I don't think so. Every free part of soft need some configuration tricks and knowledge about "how the Net works" at all. I suppose that free version of Agnitum Outpost Firewall lost its competitor. What a pity - monopoly is not good thing. No matter if in paid even free software.

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By wincement

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:45 PM

I don't think we have anything close to a monopoly in the firewall market. I also don't see a monopoly arising out of this deal. There are still plenty of options out there.

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By Mark Gillespie

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 4:41 PM

As Bill Gates said in the Simpsons...
"Buy 'em out boys.."

Buy up any competition, and then destroy it...

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By wat0114

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 4:03 PM

Behold, the imminent destruction of one of the best free firewalls on the market. Poor Sygate lovers. Your firewall will soon take on the "critical mass" properties of the present day mutation Symantec Firewall. But look on the bright side, it will be bright, with the glittering golden yellow "eye candy" colors. Won't that be nice? Oh yeah, it will also also cost you $$$

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By Caleb

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 4:00 PM

Sygate was a crappy firewall...

Switch to Agnitum Outpost and be happy. (they have a free version aswell).

Otherwise just use Jetico or whatever it's called..

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By imafurby

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 6:07 PM

Doesn't appear to be free anymore. Got a link?

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By arossetti

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 4:52 PM

Ditto. I've had nothing but problems with Sygate, and not much better luck with Kerio. I'm still afraid to even try Symantec's offering. I'm sticking with ZoneAlarm Free 5.5.094 for as long as possible...

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By MoRpHeUs2003

posted Aug 22, 2005 - 9:02 AM

Way i look at it is. I have nothing on my system that is totally personal. I don't mind other people seeing it. In that state of mind, why even use a firewall. An Antivirus program is going to clean up most virus's that mainly are reasons for computer hacks. I know that a hacker can potentially gain access to a system and make changes. But for the most part, a computer hacker isn't going to target a computer that has useless information, they normally go in with a purpose.

One thing I learned a few years back in IT was there is no better firewall than a hardware firewall. A hardware firewall is no way integrated with windows as windows only uses it as its Default Gateway. If your going to go and spend 50 bucks on a firewall, your better off picking yourself up a good router and then your set for a very long time.

MoRpHeUs2003

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By wincement

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 5:43 PM

"not much better luck with Kerio... ...sticking with ZoneAlarm Free 5.5.094 for as long as possible"

That's a bummer. I switched from Zone Alarm to Kerio Personal Firewall over a year ago. I like it better than ZA for its more advanced configuration options.

ZoneAlarm is a great free firewall too though IMO.

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By baki_princ

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 3:44 PM

Panda did work with sygate in previus his version (sygate firewall). Now Panda 2006 uses cobion firewall and therefore Norton had nothing left than to pick-up what Panda already rejected! Go Panda , you are the best!

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By wincement

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:40 PM

"Go Panda , you are the best!"

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By jordenpro

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:47 PM

Panda the best? Hmm, I had Panda on my father's computer. I too thought it was great, well then I decided to give Kaspersky AV a try, and it detected 3 trojans, which panda never saw.

So, unless you base your decision on calling Panda great, on the fact, "hey, if its not detecting a virus, then I'm not infected" well then your correct.

However, if you actually try multiple scanners, you'd come to find Panda isn't as nice as you thought.

On that note, enjoy your Panda Product & false sense of security. You are one step closer to being a Symantec user!

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By pjb

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 3:29 PM

Another blow to the home user who does not desire bloated software. Hopefully people will change to another free product like Kerio rather than pay Symantec.

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By glasscpp

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 3:03 PM

Say goodbye to "FREE for personal use, Sygate Personal Firewall"

Way back when, Norton *use* to be the software package. Then Symantec took it over... now look at it.

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By Jose

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 2:59 PM

oh noes, now I have to find a new (and free) software firewall

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By jordenpro

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 2:58 PM

DAMNIT!

This makes me furious! I can't stand any Symantec product and completly loved Sygate! This moves will drive me away from Sygate and I'll be testing other firewalls this weekend!

Thanks for ruining my weekend!

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By wincement

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:38 PM

Check out Kerio. I've been a user for a long time. Great free firewall.

Homepage:
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

FileForum DL link:
http://fileforum.betanew...l_Firewall/1013029502/1

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By Neil Parks

posted Sep 14, 2005 - 4:11 PM

I recently gave up on ZA after using it for years.

Before installing Sygate I tried Kerio. Did NOT like it at all. It was somewhat less obnoxious than R-TT but that's about all.

Sygate 5.6 seems to work very nicely so far. Too bad it will probably be the last free release.

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By gawd21

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 10:18 AM

Kerio isn't free any more and it has gone down hill. It isn't what I would recommend to anyone. If you have to pay for a firewall there are 100's of better ones out there.

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By wincement

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 8:03 PM

I'm using the free version right now. Just upgraded it two weeks ago.

I promise it's free. The only thing you don't get in the free version is a few content filtering options.

Here's their comparison of the free vs. paid-for edition:
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_comparison_version.html

**EDIT**
What firewall do you use? I'll give it a try if I haven't already.

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By gawd21

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 9:38 PM

I stand corrected, I was going by what I could find. I can't tell you what I am using right now. It's beta. I will tell you that much.

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By wincement

posted Aug 20, 2005 - 11:22 PM

ah. k

then I guess I can't give it a try lol

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By forgie

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 2:50 PM

uhoh.. I hope symantec doesn't ruin the already light and free sygate personal firewall. I'd hate to see that get stuffed with useless crap.

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By yleclerc

edited Aug 19, 2005 - 3:01 PM

Then, we will have to find other software! When they bought out PowerQuest, Partition Magic and Drive Image were great software. Now under Symantec, Drive Image seems to now be known as Ghost, which other people do not like.

All the "great" utilities that worked the way they were supposed to (on of the box) are disappearing like the dinosaurs!

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By wincement

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 2:48 PM

PC security is doomed.

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By bourgeoisdude

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 5:06 PM

Yep...

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By DarkOne123

posted Aug 19, 2005 - 7:17 PM

I myself use McAfee Personal Firewall. It doesn't take up much CPU or RAM which is great, its uses a lot less resources than ZoneAlarm Free. It does what i need it to do.

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By gawd21

edited Aug 20, 2005 - 10:08 AM

You use McAfee Personal Firewall? I hope you don't play games or do anything other than browse the web.

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