Free firewall

[AJUK]

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.

 

[AJUK]

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.

 

[AJUK]

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.