It can get worse

Really: just when I am maddened to a frenzy by vile, stupid and aggressively user-hostile bits of pseudo-Linux like PuTTY, I found a new, smooth firewall, endorsed by the Register. What a change. This turned out to be vile, stupid, and aggressively user-friendly. I reinstalled it six times before discovering, buried deep in the marketing material, the following sentence:“We do not guarantee that Outpost Firewall will run on Microsoft ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) gateway (computer connecting two networks and transmitting packages from one network to another) running Windows2000 Service Pack 2 or Windows XP.” Like anyone would ever want to do that.