Willy Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Hay all, Am after a legitimate free firewall and quite frankly have no idea what to get now that I cant seem to find zone alarm doing a free one anymore, so come on ideas?Needs all the basics and preferably program and network control Must obviously be good at what it does and not just a waste of time Willy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariojoshi Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Comodo?(google it..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Windows firewall is perfectly sufficient for home use as long as you keep up to date on windows update. People are far too paranoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 It's not strictly as firewall, but PeerGuardian 2 is very good for seeing what is going on with your computer in tersm of ins and outs, as such it can block any un-wanted visitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Windows firewall is perfectly sufficient for home use as long as you keep up to date on windows update. People are far too paranoid.If you use torrents though its been known to hinder them, sometimes quite severely. I saw a noticable difference in the speed of my downloads when i switched it off.Comodo works well enough for me, plus its easy to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Cant say ive had any problems with the xp or vista one with utorrent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 ZoneAlarm, been using them for about 5 years and really can't complain. Doesn't hog all the memory like Norton but does an equally good job.Sure you can still get their free firewall off of their site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Cant say ive had any problems with the xp or vista one with utorrent.Yeah, i didn't think i had, but after turning it off for a week or so i noticed that instead of torrents getting speeds of like 224kb/s dl they were getting speeds of 350-400kb/s. Apparantly it can intefere with a lot of peoples connections. I found out from looking at a tutorial on how to speed up torrents and alongside things like using incoming connection patches and editing diferent bits of windows, switching the firewall off was the one i tried first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 ZoneAlarm, been using them for about 5 years and really can't complain. Doesn't hog all the memory like Norton but does an equally good job.Sure you can still get their free firewall off of their site.seconded. the free one is still free and I also have been using it for 5 years or so i find it's easier to configure for specific apps than the XP one - which like danny says is perfectly adequate for most people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Another vote for zone alarm from me, very easy to use and setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broomer Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I use comodo on both my desktop and my laptop, i found the windows firewall would not let me share my files over my wireless network unless i turned it off. And yes i did make sure it had persmission to send files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Yeah, i didn't think i had, but after turning it off for a week or so i noticed that instead of torrents getting speeds of like 224kb/s dl they were getting speeds of 350-400kb/s. Apparantly it can intefere with a lot of peoples connections. I found out from looking at a tutorial on how to speed up torrents and alongside things like using incoming connection patches and editing diferent bits of windows, switching the firewall off was the one i tried first.Yea ive seen the patches. Definitely no problems for me. It regularly saturates my download speed (~450kb/s)I cant seem to find zone alarm doing a free one anymore, so come on ideas?http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/cata...=GB&lang=en Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-Stop Junkie Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 As part of my dissertation at Uni I tested various firewalls under different attacks. The free Zone Alarm product performed far better, and was more configurable and usable, than some much more expensive paid for products. Ever since, I've turned off windows firewall and used Zone Alarm along with the simple firewall on my ADSL router. It's also made by a company called Checkpoint (I am actually a certified Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator!) who make some very hefty firewalls indeed and are damn good.Zone Alarm is very, very good. The fact it's free is astounding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smo™ Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Sygate Personal Firewall - I've downloaded over 400GB of movies/music etc. on my Uni connection with every single port scan blocked. A mate of mine next door downloaded 3 films with Limewire and has lost his connection and been fined. I would swear by Sygate any day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Zone Alarm is very, very good. The fact it's free is astounding.That's kind of what my mum said - before she retired she used to do security research for BT so I'd go by her opinion. The only bad thing about it is the tendency to kill battlefield and counterstrike if it pops up a question at the wrong moment - you can turn that off though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrayvon Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Yeah, i didn't think i had, but after turning it off for a week or so i noticed that instead of torrents getting speeds of like 224kb/s dl they were getting speeds of 350-400kb/s. Apparantly it can intefere with a lot of peoples connections. I found out from looking at a tutorial on how to speed up torrents and alongside things like using incoming connection patches and editing diferent bits of windows, switching the firewall off was the one i tried first.Out of interest, which do you suggest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixed Pants™ Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Comodo is wank.ZoneAlarm ***. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broomer Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Comodo is wank.ZoneAlarm ***.Zonealarm is wankComodo "***" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Out of interest, which do you suggest?I use comodo. Its alright, does the job okay, i like blue and it doesn't affect my torrents so i'm happy. Theres also fairly regular updates for it so i'm covered against recent threats most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrayvon Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.