Hi readers of this thread,
I have heard that the firewall landscape has been changing lately, some old free firewalls are either not longer supported or bought out by the big companies, some stopped supporting older or now considered obsolete operational systems, so people with 98 SE Unofficial SP and ME are orphaned.
There are nice solutions for those who know who to implement it (an old PC as a bastion machine with a Swiss ModWall with IPTables etc), but then you must know how to install this, and the reason that people don't do it, is the same why people are not strepping away from Windows in general (cold-water fear).
How is the situation now?
polonus