Recommendations for a free Win2000 firewall?

[zekeman]

Was happy with ZoneAlarm, but they've recently quit supporting Windows 2000
with updates. Anyone have recommendations for a rough equivalent, free of
course? Thanks in advance.

 

[Stan Weiss]

Kerio Personal Firewall
Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 (last freeware version)
OS: Win98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
Kerio Personal Firewall is a small and easy to use system designed for
protecting a personal computer against hacker attacks and data leaks. It
is based on the ICSA certified technology used in the WinRoute firewall.
The firewall itself runs as a background service, using a special
low-level driver loaded into the system kernel. This driver is placed at
the lowest possible level above the network hardware drivers. Therefore,
it has absolute control over all passing packets and is able to ensure
complete protection of the system it is installed on.

http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html

This is what I use and am very happy with it.

 

[nomail]

Was happy with ZoneAlarm, but they've recently quit supporting Windows 2000
with updates. Anyone have recommendations for a rough equivalent, free of
course? Thanks in advance.

Just keep using an older version - just as effective and less
bloat

 

[zekeman]

Cheers gents -- first-hand satisfied reports are exactly what I was looking
for. For "nomail", continuing using my existing ZoneAlarm is what I've been
doing, but aren't updates needed to counter new attack/infiltration
strategies? I know not near as much as for an antivirus program, but it seems
firewall updates are something every provider does. Is that a misperception?

 

[Roger Fink]

Kerio Personal Firewall
Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 (last freeware version)
OS: Win98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
Kerio Personal Firewall is a small and easy to use system designed for
protecting a personal computer against hacker attacks and data leaks.
It
is based on the ICSA certified technology used in the WinRoute
firewall.
The firewall itself runs as a background service, using a special
low-level driver loaded into the system kernel. This driver is placed
at
the lowest possible level above the network hardware drivers.
Therefore,
it has absolute control over all passing packets and is able to ensure
complete protection of the system it is installed on.

http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html

Newer isn't always better (c.f. Windows Vista), but I think in this case it
is:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_sunbelt_personal_firewall/
Kerio v. 4.2.2 is listed on the right.

 

[Rick Chauvin]

Newer isn't always better (c.f. Windows Vista), but I think in this case
it is:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_sunbelt_personal_firewall/
Kerio v. 4.2.2 is listed on the right.

Why else do you like 4.2.2 Roger?

 

[Rick Chauvin]

Newer isn't always better (c.f. Windows Vista), but I think in this case
it is:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_sunbelt_personal_firewall/
Kerio v. 4.2.2 is listed on the right.

Why else do you like 4.2.2 Roger?