win95b firewall...

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Greetings!
Can anyone suggest a freeware firewall for win95b?
Tried Kerio 2.1.5 but it says its not for win95.

TIA,
-Art-
 
Forgot this one .

Sygate Personal Firewall
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf/spf_ov.htm#spf_req
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Minimum System Requirements

* Pentium 133 or equivalent
* 32 Mb RAM (128 for Windows 2000 Server)
* 10 Mb free disk space
* At least one network adapter or modem
* TCP/IP protocol installed
* Internet Explorer Version 5.0 or later

Supported Operating System

* Windows 95 (OSR2 & OSR2.5)
* Windows 98, 98 Second Edition
* Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
* Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with SP6 or later
* Windows NT 4.0 Server or Terminal Server with SP6 or later
* Windows 2000 Professional, 2000 Server, Advanced Server
* Windows XP Home Edition, Professional
* Windows 2003 Server (32 bit version)

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jmatt said:
Forgot this one .

Sygate Personal Firewall
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf/spf_ov.htm#spf_req
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Minimum System Requirements
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i'm not a big fan of bloatware like Norton. i do like Outpost a lot and
it's quite configurable. there is a free version. i tried the free
Kerio but it bluescreened on Server 2003. it messed up the machine so
bad i had to go to a restore point (2003 is not supported IIRC).

i will try Sygate. on an old machine, basically try for a lightweight
firewall and use on-demand AV scanning instead of resident AV.
truthfully 95 can do without a firewall because it only runs services on
ports 135-139. i sometimes don't run firewalls on Windows 9x. if you
disable enough services, then NT/2000/2003 are safe too.

michael
(running a linux box with no firewalling)
 
jmatt said:
Forgot this one .

Sygate Personal Firewall
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf/spf_ov.htm#spf_req
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Minimum System Requirements
Click to expand...

i forgot to add that you might try tinyapps.org. there are some
lesser-known firewalls that are very light on resources, although i
don't recall the names offhand. it doesn't take much skill to code a
firewall to block inbound, but proper scrubbing of all traffic takes a
lot of code i.e. memory. all firewalls are NOT created equal.

michael
 
i forgot to add that you might try tinyapps.org. there are some
lesser-known firewalls that are very light on resources, although i
don't recall the names offhand. it doesn't take much skill to code a
firewall to block inbound, but proper scrubbing of all traffic takes a
lot of code i.e. memory. all firewalls are NOT created equal.

michael
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Thanks much!
Will give those a try.

-Art-
 
Did it say that in the documentation? If so, try ignoring what it says and
try installing it anyway.

Or did you get an error message when you tried to install it on a Win95
system?

I've been running Kerio 2.1.5 on Windows 95 without any problem.
Click to expand...

I got the error message during the install process.

-Art-
 
(e-mail address removed):

Tiny Personal Firewall, Kerio's predecessor, is one that works for W95,
with no IE files needed. (Its system requirements, for OS: "Windows 9x /
Me / NT4.0 / 2000")
Click to expand...

Using it now, works great.

-Art-
 
i'm not a big fan of bloatware like Norton. i do like
Outpost a lot and it's quite configurable. there is a free
version. i tried the free Kerio but it bluescreened on
Server 2003. it messed up the machine so bad i had to go
to a restore point (2003 is not supported IIRC).

i will try Sygate. on an old machine, basically try for a
lightweight firewall and use on-demand AV scanning instead
of resident AV. truthfully 95 can do without a firewall
because it only runs services on ports 135-139. i
sometimes don't run firewalls on Windows 9x. if you
disable enough services, then NT/2000/2003 are safe too.

michael
(running a linux box with no firewalling)
Click to expand...

Keep in mind that sygate requires IE 5+.

J
 
Bjorn Simonsen said:
This LFW-page holds ver 2.00.09
<http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page3.html#Tiny Personal Firewall>
archive there also contains a copy of the userguide (pdf).
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http://tucows.so-net.com.hk/preview/195417.html
http://tucows.so-net.com.hk/files/pf2.exe (1.4mb)

Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15
December 5th, 2001

The install of the above, it gives these files:

persfw.exe v: 2.0.15 date: 2001.10.22
pfwadmin.exe v: 2.0.15 date: 2001.10.22
fwdrv.vxd date: 2001.10.22
<http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page3.html#Tiny Personal Firewall>
archive there also contains a copy of the userguide (pdf).
Click to expand...

The download from tucows, that seems to be give no docs at all. I don't
even spot a readme, nor a license.

From an old, archived install of TPF, I've got its documentation in the
form of a set of html files. But I don't know where that came from.
 
(e-mail address removed):
Keep in mind that sygate requires IE 5+.
Click to expand...

Tiny Personal Firewall, Kerio's predecessor, is one that works for W95,
with no IE files needed. (Its system requirements, for OS: "Windows 9x /
Me / NT4.0 / 2000")
 
Can anyone suggest a freeware firewall for win95b?
Tried Kerio 2.1.5 but it says its not for win95.
Click to expand...

Did it say that in the documentation? If so, try ignoring what it says and
try installing it anyway.

Or did you get an error message when you tried to install it on a Win95
system?

I've been running Kerio 2.1.5 on Windows 95 without any problem.

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Gene H. Chan said:
Did it say that in the documentation? If so, try ignoring what it says and
try installing it anyway.

Or did you get an error message when you tried to install it on a Win95
system?

I've been running Kerio 2.1.5 on Windows 95 without any problem.
Click to expand...

Google groups search shows reports of w95 users having your success, but
others with fail.

One of the possibilities is that it is only a matter of the comctl32.dll
version on the w95 machines. W95 users ought to do this update, at least
out of general principle:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/Comctl32/5.80.2614.3600/W9XNT4/EN-US/50comupd.exe

One w95 user report was that after attempted install, he couldn't boot up.

An earlier version of Kerio, it had a file named FWDRV.SYS. Maybe in that
version, that file call got written into system.ini. W9x gets really pissed
off when it finds things in system.ini that it doesn't like, and then tries
to refuse to let you continue.

For the later TPF release, there is one precaution I'd still take, if
attempting an install on w95. I'd set aside a file named something like
remove.reg, and drop it at root of C, where I could get to it handily.
If Windows didn't want to let me boot, then I'd merge it. By typing this
at DOS:

C:\ regedit remove.reg

------------remove.reg-------------------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\fwdrv]
; removes the call for firewall device driver
;
 
Did it say that in the documentation? If so, try ignoring what it says and
try installing it anyway.

Or did you get an error message when you tried to install it on a Win95
system?

I've been running Kerio 2.1.5 on Windows 95 without any problem.
Click to expand...

I also ran Kerio Personal Firewall on my old Windows 95 system with no
problems. I'd ignore the error message and try and instal it.If that
doesn't work perhaps try an earlier version of Kerio.

David
 
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