Symantec kills off free Sygate firewall

[0iD]

From ZD Net:

Symantec kills off free Sygate firewall
Sygate's free Personal Firewall product is being killed off by
Symantec, to avoid overlap with its paid-for Norton-branded
offering
http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.ne...09667/76125/0/

Shame

[machinist]

Noooooooooo, what am I gonna use now

SPF was my favourite firewall, rock solid and didn't hog resources.......what other quality free firewalls are out there now then ?

[Cronus]

I hate it when companies do this! Sygate was definately one of the best free firewalls.

Kerio isn't bad:
http://www.kerio.com

Also ZoneAlarm is quite popular
http://www.zonelabs.com

[steve threlfall]

bah

Sygate was brilliant. If Symantec think everyone is going to jump into bed with norton then they have another thing coming

[tim_n]

they will if the price is right

buy competitor with better product

shut them down

repeat

Kerio is being shut down apparently. I don't know what to do now, all my machines use sygate and norton doesn't do anything but crash it. Zonealarm just sits and eats CPU & memory & never has a feeling of control!

[sybrows]

That has miffed me somewhat as I like sygate and it was the best of it's Ilk IMHO
BrOw

[Agent]

Dammit, i use Sygate too. Defo one of the best firewalls for not taking up stupid amount of resources (im looking at you, Norton).

[Oakey]

Sygate Personal firewall was awesome. As stated, rock solid and no resource hog. Not to mention, it never caused any problems (unlike my experience with Norton software that has a zillion processes running, and seems to break things on a whim).

I guess we should all download it today then!

[tim_n]

looks like it's already gone. Unbelievable :- (

I'll keep using sygate until someone comes up with a good opensource alternative. I don't trust norton anymore - used to swear by them.

[blueball]

I guess we should all download it today then!

Could be tricky. it looks like they have integrated the sites a day early as all links on sygate lead to Symantec webstore

[Oakey]

Wow, that was rather crappy of them. Try download.com?

Still works for me?

http://www.simtel.com/product.downlo...s.php?id=53687

[blueball]

Found it here http://www.download.com/3000-2092_4-10049526.html as well

[TheAnimus]

looks like it's already gone. Unbelievable :- (

I'll keep using sygate until someone comes up with a good opensource alternative. I don't trust norton anymore - used to swear by them.

There a free example on the MS platform SDK, or is it in the DDK, anyway, lookup NDIS filters.

[Matt1eD]

RIP

My favourite firewall by far. I've tried paid and free firewalls. Sygate has to be my favourite.

Downloaded Sygate for my bros computer a couple of weeks ago, at least I've got a pretty new version on CD. Will just use that, won't get updates though.

*/Whacks out a C compiler and starts writing opensource Hexus.Firewall!

[Taz]

Do you guys use Sygate instead of XP SP2 FW?

[Cronus]

I do.
XP SP2 Firewall doesn't monitor/block outbound traffic