Comodo Firewall Pro
Personal Firewall
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Free Comodo Personal Firewall - Secure your system against internal attacks such as Trojan viruses / malicious software and external attacks by hackers. Safeguard your personal data though a simple user friendly single click interface offering full immunity to attack. Comodo Personal Firewall helps you connect in a secure way to the internet and global networks. Total peace of mind is FREE!!

Unfortunately, most firewalls leak. But Comodo's Firewall is unique in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put firewall through all kinds of sophisticated tests to ensure its firewall powerful enough to ward off these attacks with default settings. No other firewall has had to work this hard. Take this test yourself.

Constantly monitors and defends your PC from internet attacks
Free maintenance upgrades
Gain complete control over which programs are allowed internet access
Stay protected against new threats via automatic online updates
Real time traffic monitoring enables you to react instantly to threats and identify bandwidth bottlenecks.
Easy to use interface and quick setup
No license fee - complete protection at no cost for networks and home users

After downloading and installing the firewall, just register with us and you will be sent a free license. After activation, this license will never expire.

Last Updated 22 April 2008
Win 2000/XP/2003

PC Tools Firewall Plus 3
Personal Firewall
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PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful personal firewall for Windows that protects your computer from intruders and controls the network traffic in and out of your PC.
By monitoring applications that connect to the network Firewall Plus can stop Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and other malware 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.

PC Tools Firewall Plus feature highlights
Protects your PC as you are working, surfing and playing.
Intelligent automatic protection without all the questions.
Easy to use. Designed for both, novice and expert users.
Advanced rules to protect your PC against common attacks.
Best of all it’s FREE. No catches, limitations or time-limits.

Last Updated 28 January 2008
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista

ZoneAlarm
Personal Firewall
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ZoneAlarm is an easy-to-use firewall that blocks hackers and other unknown threats.
Intrusion Blocking systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts.
Stealth Mode automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet.
Automatic Program Configuration provides safety and simplicity by automatically configuring programs. Automatically decides whether to allow or deny Internet access to individual programs.
Expert Controls give savvy users precise control over security settings.

This free version is for non-commercial use only.

Last Updated 22 April 2008
Win 2000/XP/Vista

Jetico Personal Firewall
Personal Firewall
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Jetico Personal Firewall software provides you with security against hackers who try to access your PC when you are connected to the Internet. Having inherited the Open architecture principles from BestCrypt, the Jetico Personal Firewall allows you to construct a strong yet accurate security policy and provides clear control over your network connections.
Win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Filseclab Personal Firewall
Personal Firewall
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Filseclab Personal Firewall is a personal firewall that allows you to control which programs can access the Internet and at what times. It offers an automated rules wizard that will prompt you for action whenever an incoming or outgoing connection is detected, that does not match any of the existing rule sets. You can then choose to grant or deny access, and automatically create a rule for it. The firewall also allows you to create rules manually and supports rules for applications, intranet, network type and time. In addition to connection filtering, the program also offers browser independent web site access filtering, that allows you to block specified sites or limit access to a list of sites.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

AS3 Personal Firewall
Personal Firewall
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AS3 Personal Firewall is device designed to prevent outsiders from accessing your network. The unit serves as the single entry point to your network and evaluate all TCP connections requests as they are received comparing them with each rule in the policy.
This is advanced easy to use software with ability to watch for all ports on your system without listening. Activity provides a real-time view of the open connections through the firewall. The rules editor is used to define a security policy where connections requests from unauthorized ip addresses and ports are rejected. The log viewer provides data connection notes that can be used for prosecuting the potential attackers.
Use the rules editor to specify the destination and service for each rule with the required action. For example, if you don't want someone connecting to your network, you can bar his access by blocking connection request from his ip address or port number. On his end, he see a message that responds "Connection failed" or "Connection terminated".
Once defined the firewall provides control of how the policy is distributed to all TCP connections through your network.
Win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Webroot Desktop Firewall
Personal Firewall
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A computer without a firewall is easy prey for hackers, worms, remote access Trojans and other online threats. Anti-spyware and virus protection are only a part of any security solution. A firewall is a critical component, and Webroot Desktop Firewall secures your computer from Internet threats and reduces the risks of being a victim of online crimes. Unlike the Windows XP and Vista Firewall, Webroot Desktop Firewall combines intelligent firewall technology with intrusion prevention for inbound and outbound protection that is both powerful and easy to use.

Designed for novices and experts alike, Webroot Desktop Firewall is the gatekeeper to your PC.
Monitors Internet traffic in and out of your PC for better protection
Makes your PC invisible to online scammers looking for easy targets
Prevents remote access Trojans from hijacking your P
Win 2000/XP/2003

Ashampoo FireWall FREE
Personal Firewall
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You probably know that you need a firewall program to use the Internet safely. In addition to protecting you against attacks from the Internet, a good firewall will also tell you when programs installed on your computer are trying to phone home and enable you to prevent them from doing it. This is something that Windows® own firewall doesn’t do, and it’s essential for identifying and stopping the activities of many malicious virus and spyware programs. For example, this enables you to prevent your computer from being turned into a “zombie” controlled by spammers or destructive hackers.

Small and efficient instead of big and confusing
If you don’t have a degree in computer science, using a firewall program can be quite frustrating. In addition to all the confusing jargon, current firewalls are getting to be very big programs. Sometimes you have the feeling that you’re installing an entire office suite instead of a basic network tool.

The brand-new Ashampoo FireWall FREE is different. Its Configuration Assistant guides you through every step of the simple setup process. And Easy Mode makes using it a breeze – you don’t need any special technical knowledge and everything is explained clearly.

Ashampoo FireWall FREE is also amazingly compact. Even with its four additional security tools it’s a tiny program that uses very little memory and computer resources. You get the heavy-duty protection without heavyweight overload on your system.
Win 2000/XP

R-Firewall
Personal Firewall
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R-Firewall is an effective and easy-to-use solution to secure your on-line activity. It protects a computer connected to a local network and/or to the Internet against any intrusions, attacks, trojans, spyware, and other external and internal threats. R-Firewall also filters out inappropriate Internet pages content and blocks dangerous active components you may get while browsing over the Internet or receiving e-mail massages.
Win 98/Me/2000/XP/2003

Look n Stop Lite
Rule based firewall
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Look 'n' Stop Lite is a rule based firewall that allows you to filter all incoming traffic into your computer by setting up rules for individual ports and protocols.
The firewall comes pre-configured with a basic ruleset that filters most common attacks, however requires the skills of a network administrator or user with networking knowledge to be fine tune for your individual needs.
Look 'n' Stop Lite, even though fully featured, lightweight and very capable, does not provide application traffic filtering (the shareware version does).
Win 98/NT/2000/XP

Wallix Pro
Personal firewall
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Wallix Pro firewall prevents intruders from accessing your computer and that’s the main objective for a computer firewall.

It automatically detects and blocks attacks through a comprehensive examination of all inbound and outbound information to your computer. Wallix Pro offers an easy interface, with clear details that present you a list with all installed programs from your computer.

Unwanted programs can be uninstalled at any time by just a few clicks.
Win 2000/XP

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
Personal Firewall
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SoftPerfect Personal Firewall is a free network firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks from the Internet or via a local area network. SoftPerfect Personal Firewall offers customizable security using user-defined rules for packet filtering. It works at a low level and also allows you to create rules based on non-IP protocols such as ARP.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003

SensiveGuard
Application firewall
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SensiveGuard combines an application firewall and real-time file-guard into a network security tool, that allows you to control which programs are accessing the Internet, and/or delete files on your computer.
Whenever network activity occurs that is not allowed by any existing rule, the program prompts you for approval before allowing the activity. It offers inbound and outbound network filtering via TCP,UDP/IP, as well as customizable options to protect files from being written, deleted, or copied.
The program can distinguish between user initiated action (from the keyboard) or other actions, that could be triggered by malicious applications. Additional features include digital fingerprinting of programs, self protection, detailed logging and more.
Win 2000/XP

Sunbelt Personal Firewal (formally Kerrio)
Personal firewall
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Sunbelt Personal Firewall helps users control how their computers exchange data with other computers on the Internet or local network.

Sunbelt Personal Firewall is a necessity for all desktop computers connected to broadband Internet, using DSL, cable, ISDN, WiFi or satellite modems.
Within an organization, Sunbelt Personal Firewall prevents a single computer from attacks initiated by internal users. Remote workstations and laptops running SPF are protected from Internet born attacks.

Note:
Sunbelt Personal Firewall can run in a free mode vs. a full (paid) mode. Install it now, and for the first 30 days it will run in 'full' mode. After that, it shuts down selected features, but will continue to run in 'free' mode".
Win 2000/XP

NetVeda Safety.Net
Application firewall
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Safety.Net 3.6 offers Internet security, content security and advanced Internet firewall protection for all your LAN computers, and trust controls to block unwanted or harmful applications from accessing the network.

You can define granular user or computer specific access controls based on site, content, PICS ratings and time of day. You can monitor connection level network activity round-the-clock and view detailed reports to analyze traffic and usage patterns.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP