Program: Open Source Firewall For Windows
Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firewallpapi/
Description: "FirewallPAPI is an open source firewall for Windows 2000 and above. It is a simple utility for filter network traffic."
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Other: We need to be safe. The ClamWin Anti-virus is great. But this won't protect us from attacks. So my sugestion is a Open Source Firewall. Even if doesn't work below Windows 2000, it is important to have a Firewall.
[Bump deleted by moderator JTH. No bumping.]
Sorry for the bumping. I didn't noticed that I was doing it. I was hopeless because everyone wants a Firewall, and it can't be done because almost none is OpenSource. The I find out one, and I think its strange that, with people responding to forums threads in seconds, nobody being answering to my thread. Sorry once more.
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So what makes this better than the firewall already built into WinXP? Give me your sales pitch.
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Nothing, I didn't even tried it, but for non/pre XP Systems it is good to have a Firewall. For example: Windows 2000 doesn't come with a Firewall, and (at least in here) most people don't know that they should be using a Firewall, and only use an Anti-virus. And advanced users can use a custom Firewall definitions instead of the host PC defaults.
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I really like Comodo Firewall, it's simple and has all the bells and whistles that any windows user should ever need.
Did I also mention that it's completely free?
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
about Comodo is that it's forever prompting me to approve things, even things I've previously approved. Right now I'm trying PCTools firewall http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
It seems to have just the right amount of prompting even though it's still learning. I'll have to see how it does over time.
Take a look at iSafer is completely portable, opensource, and work real great :
http://isafer.sourceforge.net/
I use the COMODO firewall, but I think that it isn't OpenSource. if you find a better firewall than the one I suggested, then make a new tread for it. Everybody is wanting a firewall, but it isn't possible because most of them are closed source, or not for every systems.
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Windows firewall is good. It just does basic things, make serverports from outside not avalible unless you explicit allow that. So you can open a listen port on lan but not on wan.
No blocking of outgoing connections at all but to try to block outgoing connections doesn`t work well so or so. Personal firewalls are a nice marketing gag but them add even more bload and can be tricked (if you are intersted search for leak tester).
I also think a portable firewall doesn`t make much point. The security of a system has to be set up by an admin.