Good standalone free firewalls?
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October 18th, 2009
Right now I’m using an old version of Sunbelt Personal Firewall—works pretty well (and I’d recommend it to anyone else), but I’m feeling a little restless and might want to try some other things out.
Thoughts?
(Things to consider: customizability, small footprint.)
I’m also not particularly looking for a product to integrate with an AV or Malware/Spyware solution—I have products for those.
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@doggywuv
i can only agree. comodo firewall is the best free firewall on the market. it even outperforms most commercial ones too.
@doggywuv @ragingloli About how much memory is it taking up right now on your machine? Kerio (now Sunbelt) is taking up… 15MB or so.
less than 4mbyte on my win7 machine
@ragingloli
but that is the entire security suite, with antivirus component
on my xp laptop it is at a bit more than 7mbyte
I use Online Armor free edition. It has a nice and very configurable firewall. It also has a program guard feature but I don’t use it when I’m installing new software. It’s great for seeing what a program changes on your system though.
I’ve never had any trouble with Online Armor. It’s lightweight and clean.
I have windows firewall that came with xp. Why do you use a different firewall? Or why do you use firewall at all? defense against hacking?
@prasad
windows firewall does not protect against spyware and tojans that masqerade as benign programs from establishing outbond connections. neither does it detect malicious software injecting benign software with malicious code to use them to connect to the internet. all of which are quite common in the wild. and if your antivirus software does not detect it itself, you’re pretty much screwed (—in installed a piece of malicious software on my computer for testing. this software hijacked other programs (like my browser) to connect to the internet. my virus scanner did not detect anything. it did not detect the trojan itself, nor did it detect the hijacking of the browser. It was my (comodo) firewall that detected that the browser’s signature had changed, it also detected that another program was hijacking the browser, and as an added bonus, it supplied me with the path to the program so I could delete it manually. If I only had the windows firewall, I would never have detected the trojan.
windows firewall doesn’t protect you against the really important threats.
@ragingloli Thanks for the explanation. Are you a hacker? Oh my God! Please don’t hack my pc, I’m already screwed up, had to reformat my pc twice in this month.
@prasad Do you have to be an arsonist to understand how to start a fire?
Where’s the Melodramatic Answer button?
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