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 Online Armor Free (freeware and shareware) 

Online Armor Free is both a firewall, an anti-rootkit and an HIPS (anti intrusions system) of good quality. The free version doesn't contain all the features of the shareware one (that can be configured better, and that has greater abilities to recognize keyloggers); who wants to open some ports could have troubles with the free version. Nevertheless it is lighter, and is anyway very interesting for recognition of suspicious tasks.

Superfluous to note that with Online Armor an inexperienced user can make damages to his own operating system, more than with a simple firewall: this program in fact very often asks to the user what doing, and an inexperienced user could block some tasks that should be stopped.

Some consumers report furthermore a slowdown in certain P2P programs.

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RATING: VERY GOOD

 

ThreatFire

A valid HIPS, free for personal use; in my opinion Threatfire is the best among the free HIPS apps (and among the best also considering the not free).

It notices in real time any type of potential threat for the pc, with special ability for keyloggers (malware apps that try to record the keys that we have pressed, generally to memorize the passwords). Threatfire does not works mainly with a database of malware programs, but tries to detect the tasks and the functions that a software uses, asking what to do when it finds something of suspicious.

 If a program - good or bad - wants to do something that ThreatFire doesn't like, you are immediately warned and your authorization is requested. At this point you (the user) have to decide whether to approve or not.

Threatfire is updated very often (almost daily).

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RATING: EXCELLENT

 

WinPatrol (freeware and shareware)

WinPatrol is a program for the control of the intrusions in the pc, unfortunately it is partly free and partly shareware. Unlike Threatfire, the limitation for the free version is unfortunately heavy: in fact there is no recognition of intrusions in real time for the free version, while for the other functionalities there are no problems.

Among the principal features, there is a great control of the startup sequence, and of any app that is automatically launched by Windows.

This characteristic is implemented very well (included the tracking of hidden keys of registry); WinPatrol is able to discover new hidden files just created and more.

I suggest Winpatrol mainly for the control that gives us on the startup, it is the best app of this kind.

For what concerns the control of intrusions in real time, available only in the shareware version, I still prefer the (free) ThreatFire..

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OVERALL: GOOD

 
 
 
 

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