In news:eIJDZoQEGHA.3920@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
Vanguard <vanguard.code@comcastNIX.net> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> "Galen" <galennews@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O12JYWQEGHA.3148@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>
>> Firewalls - Basics:
>> http://kgiii.info/windows/all/securi...ls-basics.html
>
>
> Note the Sygate got bought by Symantec who promptly killed the
> product which was their intent (and it has been with other competing
> products that they have acquired in the past). Be aware that many of
> the features mentioned for firewalls in many reviews is against the
> paid or Pro version and not the freebie version.
>
> You can do a Google to find product keys published online for the
> Sygate Personal Firewall Pro (stick with the prior 5.5 version and
> not the 5.6 version). Obviously you are cracking the product to,
> ahem, steal it, but are you really stealing when you are grabbing
> something out of someone's garbage that they threw away? I leave it
> to you to figure out your ethics regarding digging in someone else's
> software trashbin and despite that doing such will affect absolutely
> no loss in revenue for a product that Symantec deliberately trashed. It's
> not like you can actually buy the firewall from Symantec so they
> cannot lose any revenue on it. For sure they still retain their
> intellectual property rights to it.
> Some reviews will tout the DLL authentication feature of Sygate. However,
> it had a vulnerability in version 5.5 for which there was
> never a report that it got fixe in version 5.6. Also, DLL
> authentication is flaky. It will report DLLs that are not called by
> a program so I don't know on what event Sygate is triggering. For
> example, a background program that has no I/O (no window and no
> keyboard or mouse input) will alert that a Logitech DLL was called,
> yet if you use SysInternals' File Monitor you will not see any calls
> made to that DLL. What Sygate is using for its trigger regarding
> which program is calling another is flawed, so disable that flaky
> feature. You'll be answering prompts forever, even after authorizing
> the access and later getting the same prompt for the same program and
> DLL, and getting it again and again. Otherwise, I like the Sygate
> firewall a lot.
> The Sygate firewall is just a firewall. It is not censorware. That
> means it will not block ads. It does its job very well because it
> did not devolve into bloatware. It has an IDS (intrusion detection
> system) which will become stale due to the lack of any updates after
> Symantec killed off the product. You can use the free Prevx 1R
> product to compensate by adding its IDS function (the 1R
> full-function version is beta, always will be, and why they offer it
> for free; the old Prevx Home free but reduced functionality version
> is no longer available).

Alas, another link to remove from the page... I'll be down to just one
pretty soon from the looks of things or I'm going to have to start
recommending shareware products.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

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