From: Ellen K. 

The stupidest part is that it used to be pretty good.

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:27:10 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>Why am I not surprised... The Norton Personal Firewall, btw, sucks bigtime -
>it's got a really wanky automatic rule creation thingamajick which is very
>difficult to use (about 3.000.000 usability issues in one piece of
>software), and should you ever want to change a rule it has created, well,
>have fun because it's really a major PITA.
>
>What other free firewall software is there?
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:4vkpo1p4gboql2qvjupkjqscqu4q15fviq{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28000
>>
>> ===
>> THE POPULAR Sygate Personal Firewall and the Pro version are to kick the
>> bucket at the end of this month, news.com reports.
>>
>> Symantec bought Sygate earlier this year, but according to the report
>> customers will be offered upgrades from the software to its own Norton
>> Personal Firewall....
>> ===
>>
>>
>> Oddly, after the purchase by Symantec, they assured me that they had no
>> intent to kill off the personal firewall line.
>>
>>  /m
>

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