Free firewall

TomTomTom · 31 Aug 2006 at 22:01

Ratbag said:
Yeah, passed all the tests and no, I don't have a router!

You're the first person to contradict the results I got. Maybe I should reinstall it and try again... can't imagine what went wrong when I tried it :confused:

Glaucus · 9 Sep 2006 at 13:43

Just reinstalld windows and decided ot give this ago instead of zone alarm pro. Got to say I'm very impressed with it allready. Notonly can you control progrmas, you can controll the ports for taht siad program. Its got a very nice and easy to use interface. Very well laid out and easy to use.

Rebel=UK= · 9 Sep 2006 at 16:17

To be honest this firewall is passing me off, i cant get outlook express to work even though ive give it full rights, also i cant upload things to my webspace. I usally upload through my network places but when i drag the file into it i get "an error occurred copying some or all of the selected files" :mad:

humax · 12 Sep 2006 at 02:06

well its just trashed my pc :eek:

.after installing it and shutting my pc down it went in to a loop just kept getting to the desk top and rebooting again .in the end i had to reformat my pc coz of this firewall

TheMightyTen · 12 Sep 2006 at 09:51

humax said:
well its just trashed my pc .after installing it and shutting my pc down it went in to a loop just kept getting to the desk top and rebooting again .in the end i had to reformat my pc coz of this firewall

You didn't try safe mode and an uninstall then :eek:

humax · 12 Sep 2006 at 16:29

yes. i tried that but nothing . dont trust this firewall its evil

Tony Williams · 12 Sep 2006 at 21:22

It's nice when things in life are it keeps you from reaching for your wallet.

joey1211 · 13 Sep 2006 at 21:44

humax said:
well its just trashed my pc .after installing it and shutting my pc down it went in to a loop just kept getting to the desk top and rebooting again .in the end i had to reformat my pc coz of this firewall

Exact same problem here. Except I managed to uninstall using safe-mode. Back to zonealarm which avast doesn't like. Impetus to retry ubuntu i think

gurusan · 13 Sep 2006 at 21:50

nifty I think I'll give it a go.

Ratbag · 13 Sep 2006 at 22:31

I've had no issues with Ashampoo Firewall, IMO it works really well. Those people with crashing issues: did you have some other security software installed that might have conflicted in some way?? I'd definitely make your voices heard over on their support forums so they can look into it.

Incidentally, I just stumbled across the Comodo suite of freeware security apps. They seem very promising but I haven't tried them yet....

joey1211 · 14 Sep 2006 at 09:50

Does XP keep a log of all critical errors in a txt file somewhere?