Symantec scraps Sygate consumer firewall

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Well, yeah....

Of *course* Symantec discontinued Sygate; was this really a surprise to anyone? You're a big company with a mediocre product, and some little upstart gives away a vastly superior product--what do you do? Buy out the little company, and kill the competition!

And, as has been noted, Sygate was definitely a superior product. We had fun at work one night nmapping some of our laptops that had both Sygate and Symantec's firewalls on them--Sygate stopped *everything* we threw at it, unless we had specifically allowed it. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for the Norton firewalls...

But, as much as I'd like to lay the blame on Symantec, all of us (that includes me; I'm not pointing fingers) who only downloaded the free version instead of *buying* Pro contributed to Sygate's demise. And it's happening to nessus and snort, too.

I think I'll go buy Slack 10 so I can keep using iptables....

Posted by: T38   Posted on: 11/29/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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