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- Price: Free to try (15-day trial); $29.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: April 24, 2007
- Total Downloads: 17,005
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From NetGate Technologies :It is a personal firewall that allows you to protect a PC against hacker attacks, Trojans, spyware and Internet threats. It gives user complete overview of all inbound and outbound network communication. It has built-in Intrusion Prevention System and SPI technologies for extended user protection. With application rules user can control how individual applications communicate over Internet. Users have option to setup extended rules that match their individual needs.
Version 1.0.315 adds Windows Vista support.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.0.315 adds Windows Vista support.
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Version: FortKnox Personal Firewall 2006 1.0.315
"Reviewed: v1.0.315 - Works as advertized, 32-bit only."
Pros: Excellent for advanced users: has an optional packet log and has excellent advanced rules features and capability.
Optionally enabled NetBIOS filtering does a nice job of it: it capably keeps the NetBIOS stuff inside one's LAN subnet while blocking things like the crazy, port 137, netbios-ns packets that ntoskrnl.exe wants to send all over the planet.
With the options tweaked, the pop-ups can keep one very well informed of what's being blocked. It doesn't just ambiguously say that this or that app and/or module has been blocked: the pop-up has the details in it.
It appears to be fully capable of being setup to block everything but what one explicitly allows by means of advanced rules. Caveat: It doesn't have a set of app's and/or modules that it "allows" by default. So, after installation, there will be a lot of pop-up's asking whether to allow or block this and that. IMHO, this is a "Pro" rather than a "Con": thereby it will only be allowing what one teaches it to allow.
Functionally, it's much like the Sygate Personal Firewall that Symantec/Norton bought up and promptly discontinued.
Cons: It's 32-bit Vista only: no 64-bit Vista. (Owners of newly acquired HP machines with 64-bit Vista Ultimate beware.)
The UI is not "Windows" like (this is more of a caveat than a con - IMHO the UI is adequate). It's on-screen UI "window" is either fixed in size or full screen; i.e., the "window" edges can't be individually "dragged" and moved around. Column widths/edges in tabular displays (e.g., log file listings) are fixed in width. The "sort" (ascending/descending, etc.) in tabular displays can't be changed by clicking on a column heading.
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