RE: [PCTECH] How to stop "phone-home" activity?

["Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.


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