Wednesday, November 30th 2005
Symantec kills free Sygate firewall
The Sygate Personal Firewall and Sygate Personal Firewall Pro products will no longer be available effective November 30. The big difference is that Sygate Personal Firewall was free. Now consumers will receive special upgrade pricing when they buy a replacement product from Symantec's Norton family of Internet security products.
Source:
theINQ
"While the Sygate products complement our enterprise offerings, there was an overlap on the consumer side of the business. After looking at the Sygate Personal Firewall technology we decided to discontinue the products and continue selling Norton Personal Firewall,"
2 Comments on Symantec kills free Sygate firewall
It's still a shame. Now my hope for an update is crushed.
But luckily (for those who are looking for free firewall) SPF can still be found in the Internet.