Jetico Firewall (free)

Strange, I did a Find for Jetico (message body) and didn't find the thread "Jetico Personal Firewall" on 21 Apr 05 by badgolferman. I probably should have used Find in the Subject box instead. However, does anyone else have any experience with the latest version of Jetico? v. 1.0.1.58 Freeware, 7th April, 2005 Thanks in advance. Buffalo

From what I have cobbled together from reading... it is still in development therefore there may be some quirks/bugs, however it does show a lot of promise.

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It screwed up my machine really bad. I was using 98SE at the time on a Pent III. Luckily, I had a Drive Image backup. I was amazed how much damage had been done. There must have been some really nasty conflict going on between it and something else on my machine. Remember that it is beta. Backup before using it. Even if it doesn't totally trash your machine as happened to me, it might still screw up some other programs.

That was my experience, and I have nothing against Jetico. I use their BestCrypt and BCWipe.

Thanks for your feedback. I will wait for a newer version, and then I will back up my system just before I try it. I now use ZA Pro, but would like to try another FA that uses less resources. But, then again, ZA Pro doesn't slow down my system, as far as I can tell.

Thanks for your input. I also run Win98SE. Perhaps it was some program you are running (anti-virus, spyware blocker or finder, etc) that caused the conflict, or maybe just a 'corrupt' install. Either way, I will hold off.

I meant 'firewall' , not FA, whatever that could stand for. ????? (Fire Alarm, Free Apricots,Funny Articles,Future Applications, etc.) :-)

It was on my machine for less than an hour before I uninstalled it. I got tired of telling it the same thing over and over again. Perhaps if you are an experienced firewall tinkerer you may be happy with it, but it wasn't worth the time for me to mess with it.

I am using ZA Pro right now also, and it's using around 9 megs of ram. You won't get all that much lower with Jetico, maybe just a couple of megs less.

With Jetico, you have to like rules more or less, and you have to also be willing to play with it, answer a LOT of prompts, and tweak it till you get it where you want. Once you reach that point, it works fairly well all around. I've used it off and on for about 8 months, trying each new release.

But ZA is much easier to deal with overall. If you have no great need for the control that Jetico offers, then you might want to just stick with ZA.

I have never had it do anything weird or harm my system (Win2k) thru 8 months of beta's and final releases. But some people have had problems. A backup is wise.

Why not a simple resolution without adding more unstable and exploitable code to your system?

Just stop offering network services to the internet.

Thanks for the very informative post. Appreciate it. Buffalo