What is your favorite free Firewall?

[ZZman]

I like and use PC Tools firewall.

( I have used Comodo also )

 

[Saturn_Fan]

Without a doubt....C-O-M-O-D-O

 

[MONKEYMAN]

Originally Posted By: Saturn_Fan
Without a doubt....C-O-M-O-D-O


It gets good reviews, but you have to click the mouse a gazillion times until it is set up. I like PC Tools Firewall Plus better.

 

[wwillson]

Linux running IPTables

 

[-Clayton-]

I use zonealarm.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

For Windows, Comodo. For linux, what ever SuSE uses in Yast. Yeah, I'm too lazy to find out of Yast just invokes IPtables.

 

[Saturn_Fan]

TRUE! I nearly wanted to throw my laptop after a few dozen of these questions. I learned to just click on "Trusted Application" and don't ask me again, and the questions have gone way down.

 

[XPR]

The NAT router

 

[ThirdeYe]

My router's firewall is so good even I can't figure it out.

It has the worst interface ever, and I can never host things properly because it's always blocking the ports even though I try opening them.

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: XPR
The NAT router

Many forms of modern malware will get past every software firewall outbound. Leak tests don't prove anything. Testing security software against live malware is where it counts.

I guess you could call http://www.sandboxie.com a kind of firewall. That's pretty much all I use now adays. Stops everything cold.

 

[simple_gifts]

I have not seen any NAT router devices (like the "bought @ staples type) that do any type of filtering on the way out, except for parental control type filtering.

Can someone point me to one?

 

[Drew99GT]

They don't

 

[Cutehumor]

I get mcafee free with comcast broadband

 

[1sttruck]

For a few years I've used 'Shields Up' to test ports and such. The other site seems popular for firewalls.

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php

 

[jeffreydbrown]

IPCop (Linux). I also run iptables and other security tools on my individual Linux hosts, but I believe that your primary firewall and the box you're trying to protect shouldn't be the same machine.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: jeffreydbrown
IPCop (Linux). I also run iptables and other security tools on my individual Linux hosts, but I believe that your primary firewall and the box you're trying to protect shouldn't be the same machine.


Absolutely dead-on!

IPCop is a good "Linux Router" solution, that you can download, throw on an old box, and then have it as your front-line of defence. It's versatile, and has FAR more options than any of the mainstream "routers" that you will find in stores. It's also extensible via add-on modules.