[satysin]

Ahh BlackICE, Kerio Personal Firewall and ZoneAlarm Pro. Those were the days!

Plus the rise of the anti-spyware applications such as GIANT AntiSpyware which Microsoft bought and is now known as Windows Defender (although I don't much if any of the GIANT code is still around).

Sure was a fun time in the late 90s and early 00s for client side security software.

When Microsoft introduced the Windows Firewall with XP SP2 a lot of things sort of died out and then we had a rise in things like CCleaner for system "cleaning". While things like CCleaner started out with a few useful features they long ago turned into crap and should be avoided.

One of the things I do enjoy about Little Snitch is it gives me that early 2000s nostaltia every now and then when I new pop-up reminds of me ZoneAlarm :)