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Symantec Officially Discontinues SyGate Products
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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- Kirschey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No Way!!!! Other than Zone Alarm is there another good software firewall for windows? Any open source?
- diggthiscrap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn! What the hell do I do now?
- 4answer2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the sygate website,
"The future looks very bright indeed for the customers and partners of Sygate and Symantec.
Onward and upward!
John De Santis
President & CEO
Sygate Technologies, Inc." - Schrade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, currently the latest version of the SyGate Personal Firewall is just fine. I guess you could just keep using it. It's sad that it won't ever get updated anymore. I liked it.
- jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you can't beat em, buy em.
- ianubis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PeerGuardian 2 - People
- ursabear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Buy, pillage assets, shut down rest of purchased acquisitions, write off "losses", repeat...
- _Caboose_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"PeerGuardian 2 - People"
PeerGuardian isn't a firewall, it only blocks certain IP's from connecting to you. You still need a proper firewall. - tarun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1PG2 is the worst Piece of Sheet software I have ever seen. It pretends like it's the only software on my system. Plus, can u really trust a company called Meth Labs?
- Jaohnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've used sygate free software for years. I set up my first network using there software to control my dial up modem. I'm sorry to see this happen
- Murdock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn....I have been recommending Sygate Personal Firewall to everyone since I found it on GRC's site. I think it was the BEST free firewall around.
- mojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fvck! Best...firewall...evar!
- garf12, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0WHAA, who needs a software firewall anyways.
- tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just looking at http://www.zonealarm.com/ website makes me cringe. See if they released SPF as open source, we could get it back to the people and develop it further.
- x2dx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0hrm a router does a good job and if they get past that what do i care i dont have anything important on here
- kungfustickman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is indeed a sad day for Internet Security. We will remember Sygate for it's lightweight installation and extremely powerful yet non invasive feature.
There's just too much good stuff to write about Sygate to put in this comment. We will miss you. - NeuroMan42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I knew this was gonna happen. Symantec products are the BANE of my existance. Almost 40% of the machines that come into the shop are crashing due to Norton stuff, then AOL, McAfee are the othe large percentage of problems. We don't even sell OR endorse Symantec at work due to the problems.
After the horrible time I had getting Norton off my system, I will never buy or support them again. - randin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sygate and Zone Alarm are ok, but Kerio personal firewall is by far the best. You get more control, a better interface, and more features.
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
it's not 100% free, after 30 days the useless web features expire, but the rest of the software works forever. - NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"PeerGuardian 2 - People"
Its not a firewall and is a waste of resources.
And rumor has it that Kerio's free version ends at the end of this year.
Outpost Firewall anyone? - haker0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"PG2 is the worst Piece of Sheet software I have ever seen. It pretends like it's the only software on my system. Plus, can u really trust a company called Meth Labs?"
get strait it WAS called Methlabs because the person that started it goes under the nick "method" and if you upgrade PG2 to the latest version then you would know it does not have that problem anymore. Also yea its not a proper firewall and that is not its purpose.
new site -> http://phoenixlabs.org
Anyway yea Sygate is the best and I'm sad to see it go. - SuckaFoLuv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kerio is a solid free option. Zone Alarm is a second close. Both can be memory hoggers at times, tho...
- tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2radin, read TFW:
Kerio is discontinuing its firewall:
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/cheerio_kerio.html - jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Software firewalls are uncessary if you have a hardware firewall and decent Anti-Virus/Spyware.
- Googled, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0oh well!
Hardware firewall + SP2 FW = INVINCBLE (well not quite...) - kungfustickman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"better interface, and more features"
While I am a fan of a good UI too often to I see security tools (Symantec... ahem) where all they have to brag about is their overly intrisive (but pretty) UI.
What sort of features does Kerio have that Sygate doesn't? Please post them! I personally like how sygate breaks down each application for analysis. It's great! - antispammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been using Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5.5 for a Long time.... this is really sad news
- QuikSilvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Sygate and Zone Alarm are ok, but Kerio personal firewall is by far the best. You get more control, a better interface, and more features.
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Hm, the screenshots looks like it uses a lot of resources. Does it? - FunkyChicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm crying.
- kungfustickman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"I'm crying."
I agree no more Sygate Evangelists! I can't preach about Sygate anymore. It's funny that all the people who have it are sad and the people who don't aren't sad. It's them who should be sad. - Chango_Family, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>Software firewalls are uncessary if you have a hardware >firewall and decent Anti-Virus/Spyware.
When dealing with protection, the motto for Windows is the same as when you sleep with Pam Anderson:
Better safe than sorry. - LeNath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What a sad sad day for Internet users' security...
- pbjorge12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just formatted my computer and was about to install sygate today...Good I saw this...Now to install Kerio...
- xciton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5> WHAA, who needs a software firewall anyways.
> Hardware firewall + SP2 FW = INVINCBLE (well not quite...)
> Software firewalls are uncessary if you have a hardware firewall and decent Anti-Virus/Spyware.
Totally unbelievable. Those comments are way out of line in today's world.
You need to control BOTH your incoming (hardware firewall) and outgoing data (software firewall).
What is this, is it amateur hour in here? - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Can't say that I've ever needed more than XP's built-in firewall, but it's sad to see another free product go away.
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"What is this, is it amateur hour in here?"
Are you kidding? Welcome to digg. It's 24/7. - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Zone Alarm Security Suite with 3 layers of firewall protection = the best firewall with ease of use!
- NeilM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't use a software firewall. I use a router.
- ericpp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DUMB... What was the point of buying the company then?
- Jeppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Figures....it's Symantec....
- Scourge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gah someone burn Symantec to the ground
- Googled, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"> WHAA, who needs a software firewall anyways.
> Hardware firewall + SP2 FW = INVINCBLE (well not quite...)
> Software firewalls are uncessary if you have a hardware firewall and decent Anti-Virus/Spyware.
Totally unbelievable. Those comments are way out of line in today's world.
You need to control BOTH your incoming (hardware firewall) and outgoing data (software firewall).
What is this, is it amateur hour in here"
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HENCE WHY I SAID + SP2 F/W.
Can't you read. - dissident, on 10/12/2007, -0/+03 words... internet relay chat.
- matx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0windows firewall is the worst!
Sygate owns - fro0ty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I hope Symantec goes bankrupt now, fukin idiots
- Nessguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm with googled, a Router and SP2 Firewall are good enough for me.
- Smokezz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't you read googled? He quoted two different comments...
- pbjorge12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok...So Kerio broke my system and SyGate is being discontinued...
Is their any other good alternative? I have heard ZoneAlarm has some issues with p2p traffic (I also have a hardware firewall)
Thanks - PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0first the killed @guard
now sygate
i always have hated symantec
and now kerio disapearing too bah
someone i step up to the plate i am sure but sux the ones i know and like are gone - rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I think this is ametur hour, you need both a software and hardware to stop incoming and outgoing connections. A software firewall is a must when you are on a network with a bunch of assclowns who download spyware all ***** day because OOOOO LOOOOKKEYYYY FRREEEEEEE BOLWING PROGRAM!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOO LOOOOOOOOKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY FREE SUPER SOLITARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you know who you are you retarded muther *****, but hey you are why I have a job. - tomciob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh this is terrible news, i'm in ct but am willing to travel to burn symantec down.
zone alarm is up there with symantec, crap bloated software.
if you have a NVIDIA NFORCE 4 based motherboard try using their hardware/software firewall. (chipset has onboard firewall).
i only played around with it lightly but there was a ton of options, no bloat, functional interface.
it'll prolly become my full time firewall at next system reinstall.
plus all the people who think they are protected by xp's integrated FW are kidding themselves, that is the first to be broken if any sort of attack is coming, think about it, it's as widespread as IE so defeating it is pretty beneficial. -
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