Question Do you remember these programs? Are they still alive?

[vonvon]

It's while reading this thread that I realize I'm old: I used A-Squared (by Mr. Haas), which became Mamutu, then incorporated into Emsisoft. I used WinPatrol for years, Online Armor (great); ThreatFire, Spybot, PC Tools Spyware Doctor, spyware terminator as well, and others I can't remember. Long gone are the days when I was assembling my ZX81 followed by Alice32 (Tandy MC-10) ... and when I discovered my Amstrad 1512 with Gem... Nostalgia, when you hold us!

 

[wat0114]

No mention of Outpost Firewall? It was very similar to OA? I guess I'm old.

I was a moderator for the outpost firewall users forum for a few years. Great firewall with built-in application behavior monitoring. The Russian development team even sent me and the other moderators some nice gifts around 2010, I think it was. Check it out. Nesting, wooden Russian dolls. There was a fanny pack included We were also given a lifetime license for the firewall. Too bad they folded They were obviously a talented team.

BTW @n8chavez, I'm also old, or at least getting there

 

[EASTER]

I was a moderator for the outpost firewall users forum for a few years. Great firewall with built-in application behavior monitoring. The Russian development team even sent me and the other moderators some nice gifts around 2010, I think it was. Check it out. Nesting, wooden Russian dolls. There was a fanny pack included We were also given a lifetime license for the firewall. Too bad they folded They were obviously a talented team.

BTW @n8chavez, I'm also old, or at least getting there

I was Moderator at Lavasoft's AdAware Forums and also did my lions share of guiding members with the removal of tough malware, toolbars and viruses (file infectors were the worst) (often 24 hour stretches responding to complaints). Suggesting and helping them use HiJackThis and other tools. We had some great staff, Winchester73, SpyDie, and Corrine just to mention a few of the many there.

Coolwebsearch had the corner on attaching to users computers.

A blast from the past for sure!

 

[Tachikoma]

I was a moderator for the outpost firewall users forum for a few years. Great firewall with built-in application behavior monitoring. The Russian development team even sent me and the other moderators some nice gifts around 2010, I think it was. Check it out. Nesting, wooden Russian dolls. There was a fanny pack included We were also given a lifetime license for the firewall. Too bad they folded They were obviously a talented team.

BTW @n8chavez, I'm also old, or at least getting there

Latest version of Agnitum Outpost still work on Windows 11 hehe

~Tachikoma

 

[Sorrento]

I liked outpost, was that Cypriot?? Though in the beginning of Windows there was no firewall or router even, the output from a even FTTC (here ADSL) went into USB from the thing that looked like a stingray Alcatel first Broadband I had, but before that dial up can't even remember how I connected that up maybe into a network card? Zone Alarm free was the first relevant firewall that then got worse & worse..

 

[simmerskool]

Outpost Firewall Pro is a discontinued personal firewall developed by Agnitum (founded in 1999 in St. Petersburg, Russia)...On December 9, 2015, Yandex acquired Agnitum in order to use their technology in the Yandex Browser. Valid license holders were given until January 31, 2016 to exchange their license keys for a 1 year license of Kaspersky Internet Security.<a href="Outpost Firewall Pro - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a>
maybe someone knowledgeable should update wikipedia, unless no misinfo here... I used it once upon a time, until I didn't.

Outpost Firewall Pro - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Trident]

I was a moderator for the outpost firewall users forum for a few years. Great firewall with built-in application behavior monitoring. The Russian development team even sent me and the other moderators some nice gifts around 2010, I think it was. Check it out. Nesting, wooden Russian dolls. There was a fanny pack included We were also given a lifetime license for the firewall. Too bad they folded They were obviously a talented team.

BTW @n8chavez, I'm also old, or at least getting there

Matroska dolls

Unfortunately a lot of talented dev teams disappeared.

I was Moderator at Lavasoft's AdAware Forums and also did my lions share of guiding members with the removal of tough malware, toolbars and viruses (file infectors were the worst) (often 24 hour stretches responding to complaints). Suggesting and helping them use HiJackThis and other tools. We had some great staff, Winchester73, SpyDie, and Corrine just to mention a few of the many there.

Coolwebsearch had the corner on attaching to users computers.

A blast from the past for sure!

Aaah I remember MyWebSearch or something? It was a very annoying toolbar and very widespread.

 

[stonjean633]

I remember that mywebsearch too. It' so persistent and annoying that Trend Micro bought Hijackthis and CWshredder from Merijn. Those were the days of mid 2000s