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Old 20 August 2003, 11:39 AM
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for simple people?
Old 20 August 2003, 11:41 AM
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Zonealarm.
Old 20 August 2003, 11:42 AM
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Sygate Personal Firewall
Old 20 August 2003, 11:43 AM
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Tiny Personal Firewall.

There are backdoors in zonealarm, hence the number of patches available. ....and it looks like it is made of lego

edited to say "for simple people" A current version of Zonealarm is right up your street FB

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Cheers chaps - are they straightforward to set up and use? My techie skills are but a distant memory. (Just took a week to get a 2 PC workgroup working )
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Just install and press Yes when prompted if you want to let the program access the internet No other setup required.
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Tiny for me too.

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try webattack.com for freeware or type freeware into google
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Zonealarm, latest update 202 just out. Also visit www.grc.com and click shield up to test your pc's security
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