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<blockquote data-quote="Chuck57" data-source="post: 976291" data-attributes="member: 75774"><p>Way back when, probably around 2000, I installed Tiny Personal Firewall. Not the Tiny of today, but another, earlier Tiny that ran on Win 98 up to I think Windows 2000. Well, the version I had was Tiny v2. In the early 2000s, they came out with Tiny Personal 4, which had all kinds of boxes to check for configuration. I figured, knowing about as much about firewalls as I do today, the more boxes checked, the more secure my computer would be.</p><p></p><p>It worked. When I finished checking a large number of the little boxes, I had to reboot. Well, I rebooted and couldn't get into my computer. That told me Tiny worked. My computer was safe, even from me. I ended up having to grab my stack of 3 1/2 inch floppies and reinstall Win 98. I did not reinstall Tiny Personal Firewall, settling instead on the free version of Sygate firewall, which I ran until Comodo came on the scene.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chuck57, post: 976291, member: 75774"] Way back when, probably around 2000, I installed Tiny Personal Firewall. Not the Tiny of today, but another, earlier Tiny that ran on Win 98 up to I think Windows 2000. Well, the version I had was Tiny v2. In the early 2000s, they came out with Tiny Personal 4, which had all kinds of boxes to check for configuration. I figured, knowing about as much about firewalls as I do today, the more boxes checked, the more secure my computer would be. It worked. When I finished checking a large number of the little boxes, I had to reboot. Well, I rebooted and couldn't get into my computer. That told me Tiny worked. My computer was safe, even from me. I ended up having to grab my stack of 3 1/2 inch floppies and reinstall Win 98. I did not reinstall Tiny Personal Firewall, settling instead on the free version of Sygate firewall, which I ran until Comodo came on the scene. [/QUOTE]
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