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Hi John and the gang -
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.
Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 is the latest version off the TPF version 2
line. It provides some significant enhancements over TPF 2, including raw
socket detection. It's old (but not as old as TPF 2) but still works
fine. It's available at http://www.kerio.com/dwn/kpf2-en-win.exe and is
free for personal use.
TPF version 3 is bloatware. KPF version 4 (they skipped version 3, I think
so as not to confuse people with TPF 3) is also bloatware. In both cases
non-firewall functions were added. KPF 2 is just a firewall. It does one
thing and does it well rather than trying to be "all things to all people"
and not doing a very good job of any of it.
KPF 2 is rules-based. You do have to have some knowledge of internet
protocols and ports to use it. Any rule can be restricted to a specific
program (which has a hash saved so that a change to the program can be
detected). So you could allow Mozilla to make outbound TCP connections to
destination port 80 and block everything else to port 80, which would block
anything that tries to phone home on port 80, unless the program has the
capability to hijack Mozilla and make the connection through that
program. There are a lot of programs that can hijack IE that way. There
may be ones that can hijack other browsers but I'm not aware of them.
--
Ken
http://www.ke9nr.net/
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