whats a good free firewall?

[thePh@r@oh]

im looking for a good free firewall...i currently use AVG antivirus and im very pleased with it i just need a good firewlal now

Sygate

Good recommendation Rick.

I have been pushing Sygate ever since awarding the firewall its first ever "editor's award" back in the day. Sygate worked great then; still works great now!

If for some reason you do not like Sygate, then ZoneAlarm comes in at a close second.

http://www.zonelabs.com

[Atomic Rooster]

ZoneAlarm is a good one too.


Edit: Dang I'm getting slow in my old age!

[Gettinbye]

I use zone alarm and would recommend it to anyone. I am especially impressed with the way it handles port 113 (i.e.; smart enough to stealth this port against random probes, while still showing it as "closed" to queries from valid servers), which is something that many other firewalls do not address...

[thePh@r@oh]

anyone got a link to download sygate

At the bottom

http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

http://smb.sygate.com/download/download.php?pid=spf

[Looboo]

Okay- I have Sygate and it seems to work fine. I am trying to upgrade to version 5.5. Does anyone know how to install this version??

Two things happen- when I try to install I get a currupt installation message- (have downloaded twice)

Thinking I might have to uninstall my current version, I try that and it won't uninstall. If I use the remove programs on WindowXP, I get a complete mess and wind up backdating my system to fix it.

Do any of you Sygate experts know what I can do to uninstall this program?

Thanks

Have you tried reinstalling 5.0 over what you already have? Then try the uninstall from 'Add/Remove Programs'. Then you should be able to add 5.5.