🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:37:03 -0500, "Kyle" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>"Todd" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>news:tt6sg4dg9trbqsm0jil7ffu4dhbusultar@4ax.com...
>
>| Yeah, I see on my computer at my apartment, that 2k4 is still being
>| played.  And I see how it responds when there's a firewall problem.
>I
>| couldn't get a refresh, for some reason though.  Could have been
>this
>| crappy firewall, though.  I'm still pissed that ZoneAlarm got bought
>| up and is only a commercial product now.  Although, it didn't work
>| with my parents' dsl for some reason.
>|
>
>
>There is a web site http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/index.html
>that provides the "last free version" of lots of software that went
>"commercial/pay-only".  I found it a while back and snagged some good
>stuff.  I particularly liked a calculator with a scroll-history
>feature named "Showcalc" (works like the old paper tapes) which is
>very useful when balancing a checkbook and you've made some stupid
>key-entry error 50 lines back and you're trying to figure out where it
>happened.
>
>Maybe you can find a firewall there that you like, or maybe an old
>zonealarm, haven't looked for that, but did see Tiny Personal Firewall
>free edition was downloadable.  Since I run win2k on my internet
>connection sharing machines, TPF is perfect for my needs, been using
>it now for 5 or 6 years.

Don't most cable/dsl modems come with a built-in router/firewall?  I
haven't used a software firewall since dial-up.

(I realize that out-bound traffic isn't covered by a router, but then
I run a pretty tight ship and am assured by other methods that I don't
have trojans/viruses trying to 'phone home'.)