Free Firewall

[2Loose]

I always found PC Tools firewall very good and very lightweight on system resources. It was a lot easier to use (for me) than Comodo, especially when it came to un-blocking programs that I had previously disallowed.

http://www.pctools.com/firewall/

 

[HLaB]

With an 8 year old machine thats locking up and randomly opening the cdrom drive I suspect a firewall will make it even slower and what you really need is a new machine before you come back asking how to extract files from a dead machine.

I suspect that too, unfortunately finances won't allow a new pc at the mo, with that in mind last year I bought a removable hard drive and back up to that occasionally.

 

[HJ]

With an 8 year old machine thats locking up and randomly opening the cdrom drive I suspect a firewall will make it even slower and what you really need is a new machine before you come back asking how to extract files from a dead machine.

Switch Linux and you will get a couple more years out of it yet...

 

[2Loose]

Switch Linux and you will get a couple more years out of it yet...

Bit extreme really, but a big +1!