Publisher's Description
From Privacyware:
Privatefirewall is a Personal Firewall and Host Intrusion Prevention application designed to help individuals and businesses protect Windows desktops and servers from malware and unauthorized use. Privatefirewall addresses the operating system and application level vulnerabilities and intrusion techniques that hackers exploit to gain access and cause damage to private systems and data. Privatefirewall provides an excellent layer of additional protection to the Windows operating system. Beyond unparalleled personal firewall protection, Privatefirewall leverages proprietary HIPS technologies that model and monitor system and application behavior to identify and block activity characteristic of known malware, hacking, phishing and other threat types. Privatefirewall ranks among the best performing desktop defense applications tested against the industry's most rigorous leak, general bypass, spying and termination tests and is among a short list of free personal firewall and host intrusion prevention software (HIPS) products that fully supports Microsoft's Windows 7 Operating System.
What's new in this version: Version 7.0.26.3 adds ability to define fw rule order, addresses issue with avast.setup, and IP address based filtering capability.
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"Save/import your settings if..."
Version: Privatefirewall 7.0.26.3
Pros
Light, and fast!
Cons
Wish they had a whitelist, so you didn't have to keep checking to Allow for common trusted apps!
Summary
PFW has a nifty Save/Import settings under File...- you still have to visit their homepage/support... to see if you can Import, or have to start from scratch? Sometimes when they do a major version change you have to do settings from scratch.
I checked and you can import settings from v25... to v26...-
GENERAL INSTALLATION PROCEDURE: Please uninstall the existing version of Privatefirewall (via Add/Remove programs or Start -> All Programs -> Privatefirewall 7.0 -> Uninstall...) and reboot system before installing an update. Process Monitor and Firewall settings can be preserved by exporting (File -> Export Settings) before uninstalling, and importing (File -> Import Settings) after installing updates. We also advise temporarily disabling any antivirus or other active anti-malware or HIPS software until the Privatefirewall installation process has completed. -
"Fantastic stand alone application"
Version: Privatefirewall 7.0.26.3
Pros
It does what it says, easy to use; complete.
It's completely free, I love it.Cons
I use the default settings, the customized settings require some IT know-how.
Summary
With the free version of COMODO antivirus you don't get a firewall and I never really trusted Microsoft's firewall protection plus I find it annoying. This product solves the problem with (just) the firewall which runs beautifully with both MS Security Essentials and COMODO AV, it runs light and has a simple traffic light system that a child could understand. When I'm streaming video from a site I trust I click "Green" when I'm just browsing I click "Yellow". If there was an intrusion I click "Red", simple and effective.
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"So far so good"
Version: Privatefirewall 7.0.26.3
Pros
Gets the job done... even better than some so called internet security softwares.
Cons
Have to uninstall previous version to upgrade!! could have been better to update without uninstalling
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