A software firewall installed on your laptop is necessary for those visits to Internet cafes.
Windows XP includes Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) software. Howvever, an old Toshiba laptop running Windows 98 with 32 Mb of memory requires a third party solution. Zone Alarm and Norton Personal Firewall both require minimum system RAM of 48 Mb. Upside, the minimum system requirements for Sygate Personal Firewall is only 32 Mb RAM. Downside, is that after installing Sygate, overall performance suffers on an already sluggish machine.
Anyone have a spare Toshiba memory chip (KTT650/64)?
