Free Firewalls Outclass Commercial Firewalls
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“Free firewalls are better than their paid-for cousins. That is the surprising conclusion of a test of desktop firewalls by security researchers.
Researchers at David Matousec’s matousec.com carried out tests on 21 leading products using 26 assessment programs known as “leak” testers. These simulated a total of 77 test attacks on firewalls, configured using both out-of-the-box and optimal security settings. Each firewall was then awarded points based on its ability to pass each leak test in both modes. “
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Charlie
December 20th, 2007
at 1:47pm
Free Firewalls Outclass Commercial Firewalls
Used your link supplied “Read the rest of the article here” and the date of the article is July 12, 2006. Are you a little late in reporting this? Or is there an updated article?
Warren Dace
December 20th, 2007
at 5:13pm
I had been using the free Zone Alarm for some time. After seeing it recommended, I switched to Comodo. At first it was fine, but after a new update, it became paranoid and annoying in its warnings. I switched to the firewall that comes with XP, even though it has no outgoing protection. I may just go back to ZA.