Best free firewall?

[Triforceofcourage]

I used to use zone alarm. Is that still the best free one out there now? I have been out of the loop for a while.

Thanks!

 

[theflyingpig]

Comodo.

 

[TruePaige]

http://www.richsincrediblepyro...ges/close_wall_001.jpg

 

[JujuFish]

Online Armor or Comodo Personal Firewall are among the best. Oh, and wrong forum.

 

[theflyingpig]

Originally posted by: TruePaige
http://www.richsincrediblepyro...ges/close_wall_001.jpg

Impressive. My dream is to do that to an entire city one day. It will be beautiful.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Comodo.

I'll second this recommendation. Only thing I don't like is Defense +, because you'll get a confirmation window for just about everything, but I keep that off anyway, and some people might appreciate the feature.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: TruePaige
http://www.richsincrediblepyro...ges/close_wall_001.jpg

That looks like lot of fun to play with. Bring water buckets in case something goes wrong.

 

[TAandy]

windows firewall has served me well, so far

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: TAandy
windows firewall has served me well, so far

Yup, built in works great for me. Little overhead, and 0 hassles.

 

[chronodekar]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Comodo.

I'll second this recommendation. Only thing I don't like is Defense +, because you'll get a confirmation window for just about everything, but I keep that off anyway, and some people might appreciate the feature.

Comodo. Hands down. I use the Defense + feature though. Makes me feel that I've not left anything out.

 

[Sam25]

Yup, Comodo works great.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: TAandy
windows firewall has served me well, so far

Yup, built in works great for me. Little overhead, and 0 hassles.

Likewise! Especially in Vista.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

another vote for Comodo!

 

[techmanc]

Window firewall works well as long as you having the latest security patches and using a behind a router using private addresses.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: TAandy
windows firewall has served me well, so far

Yup. I see no reason to use anything else.

 

[Ken g6]

If you really like command line stuff, and know exactly what you're doing, you could use wipfw. It's the BSD firewall (which I hear Macs use too) for Windows. I really like it on my desktop. My laptop's suspend/standby broke around the time I installed it there; but I don't know if it's related, and my desktop's suspend works fine.

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: techmanc
Window firewall works well as long as you having the latest security patches and using a behind a router using private addresses.

I bought my folks a laptop for Christmas and they'll be doing their annual long vacation in the next couple of weeks. As such they'll be using a lot of hotel networks or free wifi. Going behind a router really won't be an option for them, so in that case is something like Comodo or Online Armor a good idea?

 

[techmanc]

Originally posted by: MrBond

Originally posted by: techmanc
Window firewall works well as long as you having the latest security patches and using a behind a router using private addresses.

I bought my folks a laptop for Christmas and they'll be doing their annual long vacation in the next couple of weeks. As such they'll be using a lot of hotel networks or free wifi. Going behind a router really won't be an option for them, so in that case is something like Comodo or Online Armor a good idea?

I have used Comodo and it seems to be a good firewall. Not tried Online Armor so I cant say how it is. But my favorite free firewall has been for years ZoneAlarm Free Firewall found at......You can give it a try and see what you think

http://www.zonealarm.com/secur...rity-free-firewall.htm