I currently have Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall and love it. However, it recently (tonight) popped up with a message saying that it was switching to the free version (meaning less protection) because the paid subscription time finally ran out. The subscription price has dropped to a permanent $14.96 (US dollars), but in all honesty I’d like to see if I can find a free firewall that is just as good as Sunbelt, if not better. I read on the forum somewhere that someone said Jetico Personal Firewall v.2 (beta) was rated to be really good. Any idea if Jetico really is good? Does anyone know of any really great free firewalls?
Also, I’m curious of everyone else’s opinion(s) on using Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall. Anyone care to comment? I’ve been using Sunbelt for about two years now, I think, and so far I believe it is working good. Any thoughts on this software, though?
Galskygge,
If you want another choice for a very good free firewall I suggest you go to this site. http://www.netveda.com/downloads/index.htm It is a very good product. They have their own customer based forum also, see http://forums.netveda.com//index.php?. Comodo is not the only free firewall that does a good job of protecting your computer. The latest NetVeda version just recently released is 3.80.0.
For further information about this product please go HERE.
If you would like to open any port(s), then you need to create a new Service Group. Each service group (Groups → New Service) can have list of ports (and/or port ranges). Once you have it defined, you may select it under Local Internet Users → Application Control → Full Access.
You may also create a rule in Advanced Firewall to have more restricted opening of ports.
Hope this helps"
So, it appears there is a way to do what you wanted. It seems their support does answer users requests/questions.
Neal
Thanks for all of the replies! I might check out NetVeda and see what that firewall is all about. It’s really hard to come across a very good firewall…well, one that you want to do everything that “you” want anyway, lol.
timcan posted about Online Armor’s free firewall.
I’m using it also.
It’s easy to use and I may not go back to Comodo after my short experience with the OA freebie.
Solicited TCP Packets: PASSED — No TCP packets were received from your system as a direct result of our attempts to elicit some response from any of the ports listed below — they are all either fully stealthed or blocked by your ISP. However . . .
Unsolicited Packets: PASSED — No Internet packets of any sort were received from your system as a side-effect of our attempts to elicit some response from any of the ports listed above. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to “counter-probe the prober”, thus revealing themselves. But your system remained wisely silent. (Except for the fact that not all of its ports are completely stealthed as shown below.)
Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the Internet. Most personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and ignore such ping requests in order to better hide systems from hackers. This is highly recommended since “Ping” is among the oldest and most common methods used to locate systems prior to further exploitation.
