Lavasoft Personal Firewall 1

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  5 stars

  Version: Lavasoft Personal Firewall 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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• reply by: malpaso2005 on November 25, 2005

  I too tried all the firewalls mentioned including Black ICE and Agnitum Outpost. I went through many installations and many uninstallations. Personally, Zone Alarm Pro never caused any memory hogging problems at all. In fact I found it to be probably the best so far especially when testing it on those test websites including Sygate's, McAfee, etc.

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