I just installed the new Tiny Personal Firewall and don't find any instructions, I have got this Outgoing Connection Alert says resolver 1. level3.net(209.244.0.03) ICMP (3) Destination Unreachable, details about application tcpip kernal driver then it says permit or deny, I have call wave and I don't know if this is for them or someone else, if anybody has this firewall would sure like to know how you find out who it is. Also I down loaded Kerio to try is it better than Tiny Personal Firewall or the same. GOT FED UP WITH Zone Alarm, this last update goofed up my restore points on my computer so I completely took Zone Alarm off. I don't find any inst for Tiny Personal Firewall. I will be gone till tonight so sorry if I don't respond till then.Sue

Kerio took over the old personal Tiny firewall, so it performs the same way. Kerio offers support for the free version, which is why you have their intructions. Tiny shifted its product to high end business security. The free personal use programs are old versions that still remain at some download sites. The new program is no longer free, or tiny in size for that matter. If you have the instructions for Kerio. I would switch over to Kerio, just so you can get some help when you need it. You could do a Google search to find setup and configuration instructions for the old Tiny Firewall, if you want to keep Tiny. When I had problems with Zone Alarm, I switched to Sygate, because it is easy to configure. I did try Tiny, but I never could figure out all the things that Tiny could do, and they are considerable. All the best!

Kerio has a learning mode at the beginning and is very easy to configure,it just asks you if you want to permit or deny access for every program that tries to connect to Internet and that's it. After you set this you move slider to "deny unknown" and you forget it.

Thank you for your help I think I will uninstall the Tiny and I have down loaded the Kerio, Thanks again, if I have trouble with that then I will go to the Sygate one. Thanks

btw, that's your dns server...it's trying to find out the ip address to an address you typed somewhere. kerio is good, but i switched to sygate when i was hacked (not kerio's fault, but i decided to try other products while i re-install my OS sygate is pretty good...it keeps better logs than kerio, and it lets you backtrace any log entry to find out what the ip is (something you seem you'd like) agnitum's outpost firewall has alot of nice features...but i could never get it to work. the free version doesn't provide all the stuff i personally require (the paid version does though)

WARNING: THIS REPLY IS LONG BUT IT TELLS YOU WHY YOU SHOULD USE TINY PERSONAL FIREWALL 2 AND GIVES LINKS AS TO HOW TO USE IT. So lets get one thing straight from the beginning. If you are the type of computer user who likes highly configurable applications that do, and ONLY do, that which you specify, (i.e. the type of app that YOU control), then when choosing a free firewall choose Tiny Personal Firewall 2. Alternatively, if you are the type of person who likes a program to take all the hard work away from you whilst still being fully functional in it's purpose (i.e. the type of app that takes away the control to some extent) then for a free firewall I would recommend Sygate Personal Firewall 5. The contrast between these two applications is great and although they do the same job they are highly different in their approach. I must point out here that although Sygate is much more highly polished, out of all free firewalls Sygate's offering still only manages a rather humble second place in my rating, and above it I would easilly place Tiny Personal Firewall2 as my number one personal choice of firewall. The reason for this is simply because tiny2 is by far the smaller of the two applications (Tiny's 0.99MB compared to Sygates 8.27MB)and as such takes far less memory or cpu resources. And whilsh managing this, Tiny2 still manages to be the most highly configurable of any firewall i've tried (including Sygate). It is true that Sygate and other firewalls generally offer more tools, like traceroute for example, and it is also true that Sygate offers visual indicators of internet traffic, but I have to ask myself, is it worth using other such high resource applications when you can get the same functionality from applications that use far less resources? I personally use Tiny2, and if I want to do a traceroute then I do it from one of the many good websites that provide this service directly from their homepages (do a search and you will find them). Likewise, their are many freeware tools which are very small themselves and which can fully complement Tiny2. Tools which replace all the functions of bigger firewalls such as Sygate. The advantage of using one app that has many functions is that all of the functions are already loaded and quick to use, the disadvantage is that whilst they are not being used they are unneedingly hogging CPU and memory resources. I say use Tiny2 alongside an equally small freeware tool which visually shows your inward/outward internet connectivity. And for help setting up Tiny Personal Firewall 2 then see the links below. http://www.tinysoftware.com/tiny2/files/online/tpf/en/index.htm http://www.legolas.ca:8080/sec2.html http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20000829S0003 http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://home.pages.at/heaven/tiny_pw.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522tiny%2Bfirewall%2522%26start%3D40%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN If you want further help then email me. SOS essexquest@btinternet.com