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   Comodo Personal Firewall Pro 
 

Comodo Personal Firwall Pro is a free firewall with a lot of options (a lot of more than Jetico Firewall free), that can be deeply configured. In my tests it has reached very good results even with the default configuration.
The graphical user interface is beautiful, better tan most of its shareware competitors, and indeed, since the number

of options and potentialities, it seems completely a shareware firewall. In comparison to Jetico, it asks for many more updatings, which can be a positive or negative thing according to the points of view.
The result in the firewall test of December 2007, has been of absolute excellence.
The version 3.0 add an anti intrusions system (HIPS) respect to the preceding 2.4 (version that in effects I liked a lot it). We will see how it will evolve him in the future.

In this moment, I consider Comodo Personal Firewall Pro the best free firewall.

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RATING: EXCELLENT

  PC Tools Firewall Free

Good firewall, from the software house (Pctools) that also develops the excellent (although heavy, and shareware)  Spyware Doctor.

Quite customizable, it is sufficiently light. If we active the option anti-code-injection, Pc Tools Firewall Free is also able to pass most of the vulnerability tests (leak tests that misure the capacity to filter outgoing traffic.
 Overall I consider it a very good free firewall, among the best circulating.

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RATING: VERY GOOD

 

Jetico Personal Firewall free 1.1

Simple and intuitive graphical user interface, non excessive use of resources, good general protection. Perhaps at the beginning Jetico Persona Firewall Free needs a few minutes more than the others for configuring; we have to understand what to stop and to allow.

Not that strange decisions are necessary, what we need is just to answer it "Yes" or "No" when asked us... nevertheless... if the user doesn't know what he is doing and he answers Yes when he had to answer No and vice versa, this user will run run into predictable problems.
To reassume, if don't have time or desire to spend for understanding what you are doing (when you tell him to stop or allow a certain traffic), it is better to use a less powerful firewall (like Kerio Personal Firewall free), but that requires less interventions from the user.

The bad news is that the development of the free version has beed stopped since the release of the shareware version. Anyway, Jetico Personal Firewall Free is still of good value (firewalls are not like antivruses, they do not need so many updates).

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OVERALL: GOOD

 
 
 
 

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