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Dwedit • yesterday at 6:59 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Isn't this just ZoneAlarm?


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doodlebugging • yesterday at 10:27 PM

It reminds me more of the old Windows firewall/IPS/IDS called Sygate. It was ahead of its time. I think Zonealarm came after since that is what I replaced it with after Symantec(?) bought Sygate and rolled the best functions of Sygate into their Professional firewall for a premium price. Sygate was free or you could buy a permanent license for a one-time fee. It was the best personal protection products available for pcs running Windows up to WinXP.

I had also tried a different firewall/privacy tool from a company in Canada I think called ZeroKnowledge. That was a great product that also allowed you fine-grained access to and control of all connections to/from your Windows pc. They had a product available for a short time but shut down suddenly. I think I read that they were bought out by another firewall company but can't remember which one. They may have been rolled into the Blackberry software line.

Both of these were available in the 90's lead-up to the dot com bust if I remember right. Sygate became obsolete when support ended around the time WinXP faded. ZeroKnowledge disappeared much earlier. I may have old executables and installers somewhere on antique backups.

Kuraj • yesterday at 11:52 PM

Personally I used Kerio Personal Firewall. I remember it being very good and while I didn't care about outbound connections much back then, I'm pretty sure it had a similar feature it was just off by default

Tarq0n • yesterday at 7:51 PM

Is zonealarm still alive?

Portmaster has been filling this role for me for the last couple years.

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jeremycarter • yesterday at 7:50 PM

It's a tvery similar concept and presentation

constantlm • yesterday at 7:29 PM

or perhaps BlackICE

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