I removed sygate and installed outpost (which migrated to 30 days trial after update) next zonealarm. Now I want go back to sygate. What was last version of Sygate Personal firewall Pro (pspf.exe)? The same question about signatures.
pspf.exe was removed from sygate sites. Signatures also. The newest I found was:
5.5 build 2710 signature: 1.0.1066
If someone needs original sygate pro from good source here it is:
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link survived symantec clenaup.
If someone has newer sygate or signatures and would like to share give me a sign and I will send real e-mail address for upload.
I believe the last officially released Sygate Pro version was 5.5.2710. So you appear to have it. There are various Pro 5.6 beta's and debug builds floating around and available if you're so inclined to experiment with them. You can find a few related posts on Wilders, along with download links:
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Some of the members of the Sygate forums have moved and now reside at Wilders so you may be able to obtain more info from them.
Sygate offers strong security as a firewall for most users. Keep updating antivirus and adaware software and you'll be safe. Sygate by default blocks all packets "nockig" to your computer so you are safe against present and future worms, hackers flying arount Internet. The other problem is with outgoing connections: decide wise when sygate asks for application permissions - without updated signatures you are sygate's signture brain by deciding which apps are bad or good. Sygate will learn from you if updated signatures are not available.
Sygate does install system services which open Windows. This is a security breach, and shows, that they never read the documentation of Microsoft for developing system services, and that they're understanding nothing about security with Windows at all.
This is ridiculous.
What a b0rken concept. Don't you think, that the provider of security software should know MUCH MORE about security than the only one, who knows _completely_ _nothing_ in this game, the user?
I said for most users. I use sygate since long time and never have problems with it. I know about examples of code that auto clicks buttons on screen, but in real world such appliaction from Internet must pass firewall, antivirus and webrowser like firefox which do not use activex scripts. And such worm must support particular firewall. So separate version of worm should be for sygate, zone alarm, kerio, norton, outpost, tiny etc... And of course it must be manualy downloaded from website if web browser do not supports activex.
firewall+antivirus+adaware can keep box safe in general. The only ridiculus thing here is Windows which needs all this stuff to be usable on net. Using such software on Linux is ridiculous but definitly not on Windows. Blame Mr. Gates, not me, for system design.
If I was so aware like you I would never plug windows box on net. If windows do not obey standards why software written for it should?
I made rules for webbrowsers, e-mail client and said to user: click always NO. This is not so hard to learn.
------------------------------------- snip --------------------------------- "Important: We strongly recommend that services do not run as interactive services if the services run in an elevated security context such as SYSTEM.
For the Windows user interface, the desktop is the security boundary. Any application that is running on the interactive desktop can interact with any window that is on the interactive desktop, even if that window is not displayed on the desktop. This behavior is true for every application, regardless of the security context of the application that creates the window and regardless of the security context of the application that is running on the desktop. The Windows message system does not allow an application to determine the source of a window message.
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