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I would also recommend the Comodo Firewall. I used it for a bit but then switched on my router firewall and they where doing exactly the same job so I unistalled it.
Comodo is a brilliant firewall, if you are sharing files using the shared areas that Win XP designate you will need to set-up a safe zone using the firewall network settings.
Hope that makes sense!
Comodo is a brilliant firewall, if you are sharing files using the shared areas that Win XP designate you will need to set-up a safe zone using the firewall network settings.
Hope that makes sense!
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The XP SP2 firewall is sufficient assuming you are on XP.
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Some people don't like it, but I'd say have a look at ZoneAlarm. Works very well.
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I use PC tools firewall, great, but has prob with Steam multiplayer games 
may try the other suggestions here, though I do like it.
may try the other suggestions here, though I do like it.
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Another vote for Comodo. 
Switched to it from Za a while ago now, works great with no problems, and its much better.
Switched to it from Za a while ago now, works great with no problems, and its much better.
Pretty much any firewall is only as good as its settings. The better/worse comparisons between most firewalls is usually how sensible their base configurations are.
If you set Windows firewall properly it's just as good as many of proprietry ones. If you want to shift to Ubuntu or other Unix platform then the internal settings are infinitely configurable to your needs.
If you set Windows firewall properly it's just as good as many of proprietry ones. If you want to shift to Ubuntu or other Unix platform then the internal settings are infinitely configurable to your needs.
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Nefarious said:
Yes, my only complaint with Windows firewall is that it doesn't do outgoing blocking. ZA (and others) will alert you when applications try to access the internet (or your local network) which means if you do ever pick up some piece of software that tries to phone home without your knowledge, it will be blocked instead and you will be notified. Other than that aside I agree.
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LoadsaMoney said:Another vote for Comodo.
Switched to it from Za a while ago now, works great with no problems, and its much better.
Im curious, in what respects is it better (not having looked at Comodo myself yet?)
Zonealarm is a very mature application yet it still seems to cause havoc for some users, probably because of the additional bloat and "features" that have been introduced to compete with Norton etc.
I use comodo, its easy to use and isn't a system hog. And it does its job as well as anything else really.
I use comodo, its easy to use and isn't a system hog. And it does its job as well as anything else really.
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Well when i had Za webpages used to be messed up, for example on the shop site here, boxes over boxes etc... so you couldnt read what was underneath, text cut in half horizontally, everytime i tried to watch an online video it didn't like it so used to hard reset my PC, and it was always because of the TrueVector Engine of Za crashing, Comodo's brilliant, webpages are spot on, no crashing nothing, i could have even been just playing a game and my PC would just hard reset through that TrueVector Engine of Za going **** up, used it for years, but thank god im free now. 
