Windows Secrets & LangaList

First, a hearty congratulations on the merging of Brian Livingston's "Windows Secrets Newsletter" with Fred Langa's LangaList. Both have enjoyed a large readership over the years. The combined newsletter is going to 275,755 recipients with countless others reading it online!

Now, regarding the portion of the "Free antivirus, a new firewall, and IP sniffing" by Fred Langa relating to "Ad-Aware's new firewall gets a good buzz", a bit of full disclosure is needed. The firewall offered by Lavasoft was introduced in November, 2005. The Lavasoft Firewall is a "trimmed down", rebranded Outpost firewall.

Unfortunately, the revamping of the Lavasoft website also resulted in the loss of historical Lavasoft news items. However, at "Agnitum Stragetic Partners" note:

"The following list describes strategic partners with whom Agnitum has shared the fruitful benefits of cooperation:

Lavasoft, the pioneer and worldwide leader in anti-spyware solutions, markets re-branded Outpost Firewall Pro as Lavasoft Personal Firewall product.

"We were pleased to partner with Agnitum to offer customers a more comprehensive security suite".

Fernando Francisco
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Lavasoft
www.lavasoft.com"

For further information, see Chachazz's November 6, 2005, "A look at Lavasoft Personal Firewall" at Gladiator Security Forum.