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AJUK

AJUK

AJUK

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Those terribly nice people at Ashampoo, makers of some extremely good software, have come over all generous and have decided to give away their new firewall for nothing, yes that's right, for free!

Get it here

I have tested it and it works great.

:)
 
personally i'm happy sticking with XPSP2 firewall, but the interface looks pretty tidy

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i wish the makers of 'Ghostwall' would add program support, that'd be amazing
 
Any other reviews/experience with this? Is it relatively new? I'm a little frustrated with ZoneAlarm and how it doesn't coexist in some cases with Avast. ZA has shut down by itself on one comp a few times... then it asks whether you'd like to reactivate it instead of just restarting.... WTF?

So yeah... any more opinions on Ashampoo?... I might try it.
 
TomTomTom said:
Any other reviews/experience with this? Is it relatively new? I'm a little frustrated with ZoneAlarm and how it doesn't coexist in some cases with Avast. ZA has shut down by itself on one comp a few times... then it asks whether you'd like to reactivate it instead of just restarting.... WTF?

So yeah... any more opinions on Ashampoo?... I might try it.
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yes, i was using zonealarm and avast av and had problems with it. is there some sort of compatibility problem i don't know about? :o
 
It is very new, literally just out of beta yesterday so I don't think there are offcial reviews at the moment. I have it installed and it seems failry light running at 12 meg of ram and it certainly has the advantage over Win SP2 fw because it includes outbound filtering with a very informative pop up. No compatibility issues with Avast either. ;)

I am behind a router so I am unsure how it performs on port scans etc. but for leak tests it passed no problem at all.

I have several other programs from Ashampoo, namely Burning Studio 6 and WinOptimizer 3, both of which are extermely good programs. If there other projects are anything to go by this is likely to be up there with the best eventually.

They are about to release anti virus software and already have a antispyware programm so I get the impression they may be working towards an integrated suite in the longer term.
 
suarve said:
yes, i was using zonealarm and avast av and had problems with it. is there some sort of compatibility problem i don't know about? :o
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I downloaded and installed Avast (freebee) on Saturday, on installation it recognized I had Zone Alarm (freebee) on the system. It gave me a choice to install (?) an additional item if I was experiencing problems with Zone Alarm or not to bother if I wasn't getting any problems. As it was my first install I chose not to bother and I haven't experienced any problems :)
 
Belly said:
I downloaded and installed Avast (freebee) on Saturday, on installation it recognized I had Zone Alarm (freebee) on the system. It gave me a choice to install (?) an additional item if I was experiencing problems with Zone Alarm or not to bother if I wasn't getting any problems. As it was my first install I chose not to bother and I haven't experienced any problems :)
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Yah that regards the "webshield transparent proxy". I have tried disabling the webshield feature after installing... did not eliminate the ZA prob. It's kind of a lower resources comp though (256 MB on Win2K)... dunno. The webshield feature is nice though.
 
I'm a little baffled at the moment...

Installed it on a comp that is not behind a router and...

grc.com ShieldsUp was able to access file sharing (it saw my shared folders, everything) and no ports at all were stealthed. So I pulled the plug right away.

I checked through the "Expert Mode" settings and could not find anything indicating that any firewall features were "off".
:confused:
 
:eek:

Very strange, I tested as well on sygate, pcflank and auditmypc on a non-routered connection and it passed. I didn't test on Shields Up but if it fails that then there must be a reason or a way to configure it to pass.

I will try some more tests and I will email them if it fails, perhaps you could do the same. Not that we should be doing their job for them. ;)
 
I gave this a go, not sure what happened but despite giving permission to all the apps that used the net i was completly blocked off, couldnt even get to a webpage in firefox/ie/opera
 
I've been using this for a few days now and I'm quite impressed. It passed all the tests I threw at it, its very good on resource usage (using about 8MB RAM) and doesn't have loads of superfluous features. I've ditched Outpost Pro for it!

;)
 
Ive been using ZA Security Suite for a few months but im getting annoyed with it, for some reason all of a sudden i cant play pes5 online with it, ive tried everything i can think of. I also cant use MSN to send files :mad: So i might try this :)
 
Ratbag said:
I've been using this for a few days now and I'm quite impressed. It passed all the tests I threw at it, its very good on resource usage (using about 8MB RAM) and doesn't have loads of superfluous features. I've ditched Outpost Pro for it!

;)
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Did you try grc.com ShieldsUp (File Sharing and Common Ports tests)?... without a NAT router upfront?

This is just fine I'm sure if you're behind a router... apparently it passes the leak test just fine. No point in two layers blocking the unsolicited incomings.

Myself I have comps both in and out of the DMZ, so I could use this on some of them.
 
nice find AJUK . just downloaded it and it seems to be working fine :) .the only think i dont like about it is that music it plays when it is asking for permision to let things out .i had me sound right up when it done it. and i think i filled me pants when i heard it
:D
 
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