Lavasoft Personal Firewall (32-bit) 3.0 User Reviews

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• 99 out of 134 people found this review helpful

  1 stars

  Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall (32-bit) 1

  "$29.95! Why?"

  by crash.jenson on April 2, 2007

  Pros: Why would anyone pay for an average, at best firewall? No pros at all! The poor reviews speak for themselves.

  Cons: Weak against new types of attacks like DLL injection. The price is rediculas when you can get a free firewall (Comodo) that does pass all known leak tests! Hard to uninstall, short trial, overpriced and poor customer support tops it off as a poor program. Evan if it were free it still wouldn't be a good app! Get a grip "Lavasoft" !

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• 10 out of 13 people found this review helpful

  3 stars

  Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall (32-bit) 1

  "Mediocre"

  by heavygear3 on January 7, 2007

  Pros: It has stealth mode and protects both inbound and outbound. It tells u how many intrusions it has blocked (like ZoneAlarm)

  Cons: The GUI isnt that good. Kinda pricey but after all, it's Lavasoft. Worth a try but I don't think any novice will like it.

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• 8 out of 16 people found this review helpful

  3 stars

  Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall (32-bit) 2

  ""Lavasoft" used to be a great company."

  by Chainmail2006 on August 9, 2007

  Pros: I'm not going to review this firewall but I'd like to post a thought. I just don't get whats going on at "Lavasoft". It's August 2007 people and they seem to have forgotten that theres a new operating system by "Microsoft" out and it's been out for seven months now. So many other companies have released "Vista" compatible software but "Lavasoft" hasn't. Theres a couple of free firewalls out that work on "Vista" and a few paid firewall applications that work with "Vista" to. Some are integrated into internet security suites that work with "Vista". I used to love this company but this and "AdAware 2007" just don't cut it for me. Besides, why would anyone pay for a firewall when theres "Zone Alarm", "PC tools Firewall" and "Comodo Firewall Pro"? These are all free and two of them work with "Vista". I hope they get it together soon because I have lost the respect I used to have for "Lavasoft". Man, I just don't understand whats going on at "Lavasoft" these days.

  Cons: No comment. See my comments in pros.

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• 20 out of 28 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall (32-bit) 1

  "The Best!"

  by viruzth on November 17, 2005

  Pros: I'm a Sygate user, u can found my review for Sygate... I've tried many firewall, ZoneAlarm [suite and free version], kerio 4.2.2, AVG antivirus with firewall, Sygate [free and pro version], NetVeda, Net Firewall, ans at last Lavasoft Firewall.

  ZoneAlarm is a resources enemy and the suite is worst... In my experience, it ruin my PC.

  Sygate is great firewall, but after testing with Gibson and "www auditmypc com" i realize that Sygate is not completely safe.

  NetVeda... it might be great but not for novice like me, all the settings are manual... but my friend as a Network Admin at his office told me it is great, but again not for me.

  Net Firewall... use it for short period... dunno about this one.

  Kerio... great one, with lots of settings and yada yada... but i just don't like it, b'coz the interface.

  AVG... true stealth but has one major problem, it doesn't detect changes in program. So if your program is corrupted with virus or trojan or else, it will allow it just like normal program.

  Lavasoft... The best at this time, true stealth, easy to set [has automatic configuration], nice interface, tell u whan happening in network traffic activities, detect changes [that's why has many pop-up], recognize many softwares and provide the specific rules. For advance user... they'll find it very usefull but for novice like me, it just make my heart lighter when i surf the net ^^.

  Cons: Can u give us at least 30 days try-period??? Or make the personal free version like ad-aware?

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• 4 stars

  Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall (32-bit) 2

  "Near Perfection"

  by Jude The Cat on February 17, 2008

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