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    Symantec kills free Sygate firewall

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28000

    Oh joy, swap your free, rather good, minimal resource using Firewall for a POS.

    Come on people roll up, roll up, get your resource hogging un-removable (with difficulty), costly (subscriptions anyone?) firewall here.

    I hate it when this happens - big company buys little company that has better products just to kill the competition. I bet that symantec don't incorporate Sygate's superior product into theirs. And yes I have used both an NAV/FW sucks.

    Looks like this maybe the end of free firewalls - I would certainly have paid Kerio if it had helped them grow and fight folks like Norton. I suspect once Norton get their paws on SFPro that it will become a POS too.

    Oh well - anyone use a free firewall other than Zone Alarm?
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