blogs.washingtonpost.com — Three months after Symantec bought SyGate Technologies, they have announced that they are discontinuing all SyGate products and support as of November 30, 2005.There goes one of the great, free software firewalls for Windows :(
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arcmanNov 26, 2005
"You need to control BOTH your incoming (hardware firewall) and outgoing data (software firewall)."Uhh, maybe if you're a noob and you're running IE, Kazaa, and whatever other sketchy programs on your box. I can't stand most software firewalls: "*POPUP* Something is trying to access the internet!" "*POPUP* Something is trying to access the Internet!" Yes, I know something is, that's ME YOU PIECE OF s**tGive me a plain hardware SPI firewall anyday.And say what you want about the Windows firewall, it passes most every portscan I've thrown at it, and it actually does a very nice job of staying the hell out of your way.
skinnerNov 27, 2005
hmmm, who to boycot next?? i pick symantec, whos with me? lol
digisurferNov 27, 2005
Windows firewall, or a hardware NAT router with SPI, make for good protection if the direction of the traffic is inbound. They do nothing for outbound traffic though. This is where a good software firewall comes in. People who complain about getting pop up messages are either too stupid or too lazy (likely both) to set one up properly. The only real down side to software firewalls, if they aren't updated frequently, is that they are prone to attack by all types of malware that has made it onto your system. Otherwise, they are definitely worth running at all times. Personally I still use Kerio 2.1.5 since simplicity is what I prefer. I really hate bloated do-it-all programs like the stuff Symantec makes, a direction everyone else seems to be going these days. Anyone who says they don't need outbound protection is an idiot. What these people are basically saying is that they trust every executable file on their PC. Go ahead and do a *.exe search of your system. Are you telling me you trust every single one of those results explicitly? Yah, like hell you do. Heck, even the legitimate stuff can't be trusted these days.
halfhunNov 27, 2005
Since switching to Mac OSX, I am not affected by this, but I find it rather strange that Symantec buys them and kills the product.In my windows days I used Sygate and was very happy with it.If you can afford to switch to Mac OSX, do so! I use little snitch (<a class="user" href="http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/download.html)">http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/download.html)</a> which intercepts outgoing traffic. The rock-solid ipfw part of Darwin handles incoming connection filtering and little snitch handles the outgoing :-)
Closed AccountNov 30, 2005
Sygate is the best firewall i've ever used, and i've used all the software firewalls on planet earth.I will hack/crack the alternative, whatever we will be forced to use in this country we call A$e$i$a. (Zone alarm is worthless, and it's too bad).I hope this country fails due to piracy. That's what they'll deserve for for being so greedy.
leechDec 7, 2005
<a class="user" href="http://www.snapfiles.com/get/sygatefw.html">http://www.snapfiles.com/get/sygatefw.html</a>