Looking for a FireWall

Hi,now that Symantic has taken over Sygate and will do away with there firewall. I will need to find a new one,which is the best Free FireWall that works with XP Pro SP2.

 

IMO, ZoneAlarm. Just a personal preference.

 

Agree on ZA-free. Stable and not a resource hog. No experience with the others.

 

zonealarm free is what i use. At first i bought version 3 a while back and it was great and the free one is very good too. As far as sygate free and outpost I admit i never used either cause za was just better at the time and is pretty secure so i figured why mess with anything else. Did try norton but it kind of suked IMO and used resourves up the... u get it.

 

Why abandon Sygate just because Symantec bought it and put it in File 13? If you have the installation file and install it, it still works fine.

 

i started to do some research cause of ur question. While i don't know if sygate will change in any significant way that would matter to our pc's protection, I checked in Pc mag which had an analysis of the fee antivirsus software avaliable. It is dated 9.??.05 note that too. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1864601,00.asp

The thing that caught my eye was that the open source one and sygate could be turned off ( I don't know if this was fixed since then so u might want to check on that).

 

Symantec gave Sygate Personal Firewall the 'Deep 6'. It will no longer be developed, updated, supported, or available from them. What happens when a flaw is found in the firewall, who's going to fix it? No one. That by itself is reason enough to start looking for a replacement.

 

Zonealarm free version is really good.
I actually don't use the pro version because managing it is a little bit difficult,Go for Zonealarm.