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- Price: Free to try (10-day trial); $29.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 14, 2005
- Total Downloads: 141,176
- Downloads last week: 453
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 46 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This powerful personal firewall from the makers of Ad-Aware offers effective protection, ease of use, and a solid feature set. Based on Agnitum Outpost Firewall s engine, the program boasts a well-designed interface that prominently displays an event log of all activities. The application s left panel contains sections for network activity, open ports, and allowed or blocked processes. Lavasoft Personal Firewall quickly scans your PC to add policies for all found applications and easily adapts to newly installed software. Like any good firewall, this one displays a system-tray icon and notifies you whenever an unapproved process attempts to run. When you first start using the app, you ll need to approve or block programs on your computer, either on a one-time or recurring basis. Configuring global and specific firewall policies is simple enough for novices, while the detailed logs will help advanced users track down network and PC problems. In our tests, Lavasoft Persoanl Firewall demonstrated solid protection against threats, expected from a company best known for its spyware protection. The main downside we see is the short 10-day trial period, which may prevent some users from trying the program, particularly given the amount of quality, free firewalls on the market. Nevertheless, anyone in the market for a reliable personal firewall will find Lavasoft s addition to the category a very positive affair.Publisher's description
From Lavasoft :Lavasoft Personal Firewall is targeted for small and medium-sized business organizations and home users, providing seamless and powerful protection for both. This firewall product comes with simple configuration, "tick in the box" options. and powerful, easy-to-use controls. Coupled with Ad-Aware SE Plus or Ad-Aware SE Professional, it is a great help to keep the home PC and small office free from intrusive Internet worms, Trojan horses, hijackers, cyber thieves, or online extortionists.
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User reviews of Lavasoft Personal Firewall 1
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 46 votes
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99 out of 134 people found this review helpful
Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall 1
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
Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall 1
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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20 out of 28 people found this review helpful
Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall 1
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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5 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall 1
Pros: it protects you but norton personal firewall is much more better
Cons: dont like the interface
i find no point 4 it since i got nortn personal fiewall
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7 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall 1
Pros: This firewall seems to be okay. I was happy with the fact that it's published by the same company that is behind the free Ad-aware program.
Cons: I'm just not willing to pay $30 for this program until I've had the chance to try others. Went to uninstall the program and cannot. WinXP says that unins000.dat is missing from its directory. I e-mailed Lavasoft support today. I hope I get the help I want from Lavasoft. :0(
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