Re: Personal firewall (for dial-up) recommendation?

Daniel James wrote:
SWMBO has offered an old laptop to an elderly family member who wants
to be able to communicate with the EMail generation, and muggins has
been asked to set it up.

Said laptop runs Win2k (and hasn't really got the oomph for XP) and
EFM will be using dial-up (so no router firewall) -- which of the many
(preferably free) personal firewalls is the current flavour of the
month?

It all has to be robust, foolproof, and simple to manage ... as the
EFM lives 400 miles away, in Scotland, and has no IT-savvy friends or
relatives nearby.

Before anyone suggests using linux: I've thought of that, but I really
don't have time right now to discover that the winmodem in this thing
isn't supported and then to reinstall Win2k. The laptop is only a
stopgap measure to see whether the EFM takes to the PC.

I'll probably provide Mozilla SeaMonkey as web and mail client (all
the EFM is thought to need) as being slightly less bewildering and at
least as secure as OutLook/IE.

Cheers,
Daniel.

Zone Alarm

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Trev
You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
But you can't tell him much.


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