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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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This is a sad day  too_much green_tea | 11/28/05
RE: This is a sad day  wackoae | 11/28/05
I always have a copy  skeptic tank | 11/29/05
Yes, Sad Day Indeed  markdoiron | 11/29/05
The wheels are turning  node357 | 11/28/05
No, they aren't.  A_Pickle | 11/28/05
Symantec SUCKS to Begin with  RonsMail4U@... | 11/29/05
Wait.... so...  A_Pickle | 11/29/05
Symantec SUCKS to Begin with  RonsMail4U@... | 11/29/05
Symantec=  zmud | 11/29/05
are consumers idiots?  rastaub | 11/29/05
Consumers are definitely questionable.  zindorf1 | 11/29/05
Well, yeah....  T38 | 11/29/05
l33t haxor  alternaloser | 11/30/05
That's ONE way to ICE the Competition...  btljooz | 11/30/05
Bye bye, SPF! Plus: alternatives...  Tech Maven | 12/02/05
Symantec screws Sygate customers  ndalehurt | 12/05/05
Norton Alerts Pull 30in. of Vacuum  toastmaster | 12/10/05
SYGATE  alwyn@... | 05/02/06
Symantec... BRING IT BACK!  amres | 07/12/06

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