It becomes a norm that more and more freebies, or free software programs can be found on the Web nowadays. I’m not too sure whether it’s due to the rising trend, or a proven tactic for an Internet firm to gain notice on the Web. Yet today another well-known player, Yahoo! China has added a free firewall program, prided itself as a company that takes care about the Internet users in China. This product has the features of firewall, anti-virus, virus-scanning, system restore, IE browser default page restore, and etc-all in one. However, the virus delete/quarantine feature can only be done online, with the help of third-party softwares, that are KingSoft or Rising Anti-Virus software, and users are allowed to choose one of them in order to delete the virus. However, these third-party anti-virus softwares are offered for free only on Saturday and Sunday. In addition, this Yahoo! firewall program can reveal your PC’s security holes and delivers critical fixes to the problems found.

Though this firewall program is offered without any monetary charge by Yahoo! China, it will only works in Windows 2000, 2003, XP or Vista. Maybe you’re thinking that this is another me-too product on the Web, but for Yahoo! China, adding a me-too product can make people view its company image more positively.