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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: March 05, 2007
- Total Downloads: 1,084,781
- Downloads last week: 5,730
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A newer version of PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition is available.
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- Average user rating: stars out of 377 votes
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Publisher's description
From PC Tools :PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition is a powerful personal free firewall for Microsoft Windows that protects your computer from hackers and intruders. Firewalls control the network traffic in and out of your PC by monitoring applications that connect to the network. Firewall Plus can stop Trojans, backdoors, and keyloggers from damaging your computer and stealing your private information. PC Tools Firewall Plus is advanced technology designed specially for people, not experts. Powerful prevention against attacks and known exploits is activated by default and advanced users can also easily create their own packet filtering rules to customize the network defenses. All you need to do is install it for immediate and automatic ongoing protection. It is recommended for use alongside of AntiSpyware and Antivirus software like AVG or Spyware Doctor to protect PC against Spyware, hackers, worms, and viruses.
Version 2.0 includes support for Windows Vista, IP v6 and additional protection functionality.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.0 includes support for Windows Vista, IP v6 and additional protection functionality.
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User reviews of PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition 2.0
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 377 votes
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23 out of 40 people found this review helpful
Version: PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition 2.0
"It's Good But Has Vulnerbilites"
Pros: Pc tools firewall is very easy to use especially for beginners.Blockes hackers and drive-by downloads.Dosen't seem to have many errors and use less memory.
Cons: Some malware actually got past pc tools firewall and tried to disable it.It coudn't close some ports.
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36 out of 48 people found this review helpful
Version: PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition 2.0
Pros: This is great Firewall from a great company. This firewall has a small footprint and download so it doesn't use much of your PC resources to do its thing. The alerts are limited to suspicious things are very easy to understand unlike some others. It has passed the leak tests and it configured from the install to go without need for user intervention. It provides great protection with easy to use interface and most of all its 100% free. I highly recommend it.
Cons: None
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition 2.0
Pros: Simple interface.
Cons: Don't think it's that effective and after a few weeks of use with Vista it became corrupt and the GUI refused to open even after a re-install. Also started interfering with VOIP software. After uninstalling the problems with VOIP audio dissapeared. If you use Vista you are heavily restricted at the moment for any personal firewalls - Zone Alarm and most others are not yet Vista compatible, so at the moment I'm just using the Windows Firewall and so far no problems. Just make sure you have good anti virus, anti-spyware and somehting like Winpatrol or Trojan Hunter installed aswell.
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15 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Version: PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition 2.0
Pros: After installing this software...well it has a blocking security, nice interface, but it slowed down my other applications such as my antivirus scanning and opening of windows media player
Cons: Before, I can open a typical 4mb mp3 in just half a second but not after PC TOOLS FIREWALL WAS INSTALLED! But after installing this firewall, it slowed down my star-up and major application of my PC such as Photoshop and Office application.
Try the Zone Alarm.
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13 out of 21 people found this review helpful
Version: PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition 2.0
Pros: Free, quick install.
Cons: It worked fine when I first downloaded it and installed it until earlier today. As soon as I entered my password and hit enter, I would get kicked off. It's not a coincidence due to the fact that the same thing happened when I had version 1.0. I did not have the anti virus installed the first time this happened and the second time it happened I did, so the anti virus has absolutely nothing to do with it. All because of this worthless piece of software I'm out so many hours because e of reformatting and reseting my my software.
Stay away from this worthless software.
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