RE: How to stop "phone-home" activity?

I second John's recommendation.  I use the Tiny Firewall
at home on my Win98SE box and it does the job well with
a small memory footprint.  I use a dial-up connection
and tend to get hit with port-scanners quite often but
have never had anyone get past Tiny yet :)

It's difficult to find but I'm sure I can locate a copy
if anyone is interested ;-)

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 5:51 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: RE: [PCTECH] How to stop "phone-home" activity?
> 
> 
> Tiny Personal Firewall V2.  It's rather old and has a simple but
> effective interface & rule set.  IIRC it is what eventually 
> became Kerio
> Personal FW.
> 
> It was freeware.  V3 got bloated and wasn't free so I've stuck with V2
> for a few years.  You may be able to find a copy of it somewhere.  It
> should run on 98 and as it is very lightweight should run 
> acceptably on
> a 233MHz CPU, although the slowest PC I ever ran it on was 800MHz.
> 
> John A. Jones
> Americas Security Officer
> Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
> V: +1-630-455-2787 F: +1-312-601-1782
> John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:40 PM
> To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PCTECH] How to stop "phone-home" activity?
> 
> John Jones mentions that his software firewall "detects when an
> application's EXE file has changed and forces me to 
> re-authorize it for
> 'net access."  Might I ask which firewall app does this?
> 
> The other consideration I have is performance.  This is a 233MHz CPU
> with 128MB of RAM, running Win98SE.
> 
>