Free Webroot Firewall

[UsandThem]

I have always used the firewall that was included with whatever internet security program I was using at the time.

However, this time I just purchased just a antivirus program because of a good deal on it (Bitdefender).

Now, I have a wireless router that has a firewall and NAT filtering, but I always like to run a software firewall "just in case". I have taxes and so forth stored on my PC. It doesn't have to be fancy, but I don't like it eating up my resources and make the web crawl.

I intially downloaded and tried Comodo, but found it to be too resource intensive and a little overkill for what I wanted in a software firewall.
When I tried to uninstall it, it does not do so completely (which was very disappointing for a product that many seem to like).

I then took a look at several other free firewalls for Vista (which isn't a lot), and most seemed to be poorly rated (ZoneAlarm free, etc.).

I came accross Webroot Firewall and it seems it is now Freeware and is only a 2.5 Mb download.

It seems to be a nice little firewall and I just wanted all the other tight wads who were looking for a free firewall to a least know it is out there.

Review at Top 10 Reviews

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[Lemon law]

Interesting, very interesting, when I went to the top ten review link, spyware terminator popped up an alert that it was a dangerous website.

 

[UsandThem]

I'm not sure why it would generate an alert (maybe because of cookies or something).

You can Google other reviews, but the Top 10 was the most thorough that I found.