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Version: Online Armor Free 3.5.0.49
"Fiddly to set, but maybe the best free firewall ever."
Pros: Armor has saved my bacon at least twice by insisting on approval before admitting shonky stuff - something that Zone, for all its virtues, sometimes passed on. It makes for more work, and you know it's there, but a little pain for the safety is OK.
Cons: When Armor's doubtful about something, you better pay attention, 'cause that orange box can save you a heap of trouble. You have to tick 'trust' and 'remember' to get past it. Armor's longwinded, and I suspect this could be shortened some.
Summary: I've had Armor for only a week, so maybe when it understands me better I won't notice it. But the setup has been much more searching than with ZoneAlarm and I suspect the security is commensurately better. A side benefit has been that my Spyware has dived to zero, so I'm axing the extra protection I seem to no longer need. My PC, a fairly Jurassic Dell GX260, is a little slower, but it's time well spent.
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