Mcafee Firewall or Sygate Firewall?

[thanatos_theos]

Which is better Mcafee or Sygate? Is the Mcafee Enterprise FW, freeware?

Thanks,
thanatos

[WSFuser]

I have not tried McAfee, but Sygate is good though now discontinued.

And no, McAfee's firewall is not freeware.

[thanatos_theos]

{QUOTE-> I have not tried McAfee, but Sygate is good though now discontinued.

And no, McAfee's firewall is not freeware. <-QUOTE}

Eventhough, the free Sygate has been discontinued by Symantec, you can still download it in some sites. Since there was no new release, is it still reliable to use?

[WSFuser]

it still works though there will be no updates for its IDS/IPS.

[dave88]

Sygate!

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=947511&postcount=6

[Mrkvonic]

Sygate without the slightest doubt.
Best Windows firewall ever.
Mrk

[eniqmah]

{QUOTE-> Which is better Mcafee or Sygate? Is the Mcafee Enterprise FW, freeware?

Thanks,
thanatos <-QUOTE}
how is it freeware?

[acr1965]

McAfee is not freeware, per say, but here is a 12 month version of McAfee VirusScan Plus for free. Actually I registered just to see if it were true and saw I had an 18 month subscription. I believe the McAfee firewall can be installed separate from the av/as component.

http://uk.mcafee.com/root/landingpages/afflandpage.asp?affid=540&lpname=vsf

That being said, the Sygate firewall is still better.

[The Hammer]

I'd expect the most recent of the two to be the better one.