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Anyone Tried Jetico Firewall?

 
 
Sweet Andy
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      16th Sep 2005
It's freeware from a company I've dealt with before, but this is new with
them. I see it's a beta version.

Link: http://www.jetico.com/

Appreciate experiences.


 
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      16th Sep 2005
In article <dgfd2d$293n$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
> It's freeware from a company I've dealt with before, but this is new with
> them. I see it's a beta version.
>
> Link: http://www.jetico.com/
>
> Appreciate experiences.


It is technically not beta any more, but version 1.x freeware. Quite a
bit of discussion on it at Wilders in the Jetico thread here:

http://wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31

They seem to have ceased development and stopped listening to user's
ideas and so on. It appeared to have promise at one time. Many find it
too annoying with an excessive amount of popups. I found it pretty
good, but you had to invest some time in configuring and tweaking it
first to get it to a usable state.

Watch out for one problem, it sometimes can have compatibility problems
with certain software and drivers. If you run Avast AV, it will popup
with a notice at install (after the 1st reboot) and then do another
reboot to reconfigure driver stuff. I changed network adapters here
recently to a wireless setup, and installed Jetico to try it again. It
proceeded to go into an endless reboot loop, which you had to manually
break out of. But then Jetico would not run. Worse, it hosed my system
completely, leaving partially installed crap which kept trying to run
and generated errors at startup and so on.

Just be aware that there could be problems, and be prepared with a good
backup of your HD if you value your setup. After my experiences, I
would recommend trying something else...

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Sweet Andy
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      16th Sep 2005

"Kerodo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <dgfd2d$293n$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> It's freeware from a company I've dealt with before, but this is new with
>> them. I see it's a beta version.
>>
>> Link: http://www.jetico.com/
>>
>> Appreciate experiences.

>
> It is technically not beta any more, but version 1.x freeware. Quite a
> bit of discussion on it at Wilders in the Jetico thread here:
>
> http://wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31
>
> They seem to have ceased development and stopped listening to user's
> ideas and so on. It appeared to have promise at one time. Many find it
> too annoying with an excessive amount of popups. I found it pretty
> good, but you had to invest some time in configuring and tweaking it
> first to get it to a usable state.
>
> Watch out for one problem, it sometimes can have compatibility problems
> with certain software and drivers. If you run Avast AV, it will popup
> with a notice at install (after the 1st reboot) and then do another
> reboot to reconfigure driver stuff. I changed network adapters here
> recently to a wireless setup, and installed Jetico to try it again. It
> proceeded to go into an endless reboot loop, which you had to manually
> break out of. But then Jetico would not run. Worse, it hosed my system
> completely, leaving partially installed crap which kept trying to run
> and generated errors at startup and so on.
>
> Just be aware that there could be problems, and be prepared with a good
> backup of your HD if you value your setup. After my experiences, I
> would recommend trying something else...
>
> --
> Kerodo


Hey, thanks for the heads up. I looked up that thread at wilders and it's 21
(21???) pages long. It did seem like they were responsive, but then began to
feel that maybe they're out of their league. Thanks Again.



 
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