I can speak to the effectiveness and ease of use of Astaro as
recently as a year ago. I used it for years under its free
educational license as the firewall at my prior job, and it worked
very, very, well.
Matthew
On Sep 22, 2007, at 7:27 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
If you have an old PC laying around- Pentium II or higher you can have
a free firewall that can block sites, viruses, spam, and other bad
stuff. Information on the free home licence for Astaro is at
<http://astaro.com/en/solutions/our_products/
astaro_security_gateway/home_use_licence>.
They sell router sized boxes that do the same thing but you can use
the software free on a junk computer that you put between the incoming
network cable and your router. The deal is you site reports
information to their data collection service for getting the software
free and updates.
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