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Covers personal firewall issues as well as professional firewalls.
Also contains some useful tools.
Highly recommended site.
This firewall is simple to set up and configure and is recommended because of its simplicity. Its limitation is that it does not provide the same level of control as other products. It also does not clearly show what rules it is applying and provides no way of refining them.
It will prompt whenever a new program wishes to access the Internet and it is you as to you whether to permit it to access the net for this time only or always. You can always go to the Control Centre and change your choices later or to delete the entry. If it is deleted it will make another request if the program is used again. It does allow different control to be set on the local network compared with the Internet. It also converts the file extension for suspicious attachments to email messages.
The program has the reputation of being more difficult than some to
uninstall. I have not tried this however. I have used this program extensively
over a long period.
I have not had any really worrying reports so I have not explored this
feature in anger.
This personal Firewall appears to be relatively easy to use. You just accept its recommendations.
This firewall gives a far greater degree of control than Zone Alarm.
In particular it has specific rules associated with sharing files on a
local network. I do not know whether it protects email attachments like
Zone Alarm (I suspect not).
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