I need a Firewall.

[Lieutenant Dan]

I need a firewall.

That is compatible with Windows 98.

I've found a firewall by the name of Jetico and Tiny.

Except it appears that the Jetico firewall hasn't been updated since 2004

And the Tiny firewall isn't free.

Please, can someone name some firewalls that are known to work with windows 98?

[Scourge]

I know zone alarm and kerio used to.

[Lieutenant Dan]

I've been reading up, and people have said to use Zonealarm 5.5 on Windows 98.

I'm thinking about downloading it to use.

However, isn't zonealarm up to version 7 already?

Would me using a version much lower then 7 put my 'ol 98 box in danger?

[Lieutenant Dan]

Oh well, downloading version 5.5940.

[Scourge]

I've been reading up, and people have said to use Zonealarm 5.5 on Windows 98.

I'm thinking about downloading it to use.

However, isn't zonealarm up to version 7 already?

Would me using a version much lower then 7 put my 'ol 98 box in danger?

Using 98 on your ol' 98 box puts it in danger already.

[Foo]

You're prolly better off using a LiveCD running ubuntu or such than booting a 98 box now. Older internet-connected applications which you may want to run on the 98 box may contain vulnerabilities in themselves, which a firewall won't guard against.

If you need to run 98 for a specific reason, I'd suggest virtualising it inside an MS Virtual PC volume. If you've got an old PC, Id recommend adding 256Mb of ram if possible and going for a cut down version of XP, or if its really too old to even do that, don't connect it to a network ever.

[Lieutenant Dan]

It's a Pentium 1 166mhz with 80 megs of ram.

I would install uxubuntu, but the BIO's don't support booting from a cd.

I've heard of tricking the BIO's into believing that A: is a floppy drive when it's really a cd rom drive.

However, I'm not sure how to do this.

[SoM]

use a bootdisk and make a ramdrive

[dzjepp]

If you nlite either win2k or xp it should run just as good as win98 and you won't get the bsod's http://www.nliteos.com/

Comodo is a good freeware firewall

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

[Lieutenant Dan]

Excellent, thanks for the replies guys.

[=A2Q=THUNDER]

I need a firewall.

That is compatible with Windows 98.

L M A O

[+JuggerNaut+]

It's a Pentium 1 166mhz with 80 megs of ram.

I would install uxubuntu, but the BIO's don't support booting from a cd.

I've heard of tricking the BIO's into believing that A: is a floppy drive when it's really a cd rom drive.

However, I'm not sure how to do this.

did you try updating the bios? also, good thinking going with Xubuntu. Ubuntu won't be kind to 80MB of RAM. Puppy Linux is also very light as is of course Damn Small Linux (my pref of the three)

[FragaGeddon]

http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm

[+JuggerNaut+]

i'm not too sure i'd trust an old version of security software. *lightbulb*