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

Trev wrote:
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

I've always used it with satisfaction and put it on quite a few peoples
PCs but I'm not sure it is the best from the point of view of a fairly
computer illiterate person. Once you have said 'allow this programme'
and clicked the button 'remember this answer' for the main stufrf IE,
Outlook Express or whatever, it is fine but I have found that people
don't usually click the 'remember this' and allow every goddammed
programme to connect with full rights. I like it as I say, but despite
that, I think there are probaly better things out there for newbies.


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