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Today’s freeware - Ashampoo Firewall Free
- Heavy-duty firewall protection: Monitors all your computer’s network activity and protects you against both incoming and outgoing connections.
- Easy Mode: Get full protection in seconds with Easy Mode and the Configuration Assistant. No expert knowledge required.
- Expert Mode: Experience users can activate this mode for powerful additional capabilities.
- Simple and compact: Self-explanatory user interface. Very small program that uses minimum memory and resources.
- Learning Mode: Automatically identifies programs that try to make connections and lets you decide whether you want to allow them. One-click operation in Easy Mode or full configuration in Expert Mode.
- Rules: Create rules for every program that controls how they can access the network. One-click in Easy Mode or full configuration in Expert Mode.
- Block All: One-click panic button for emergencies that lets you block all traffic, for example if you are under attack or suspect that a malicious program is active.
Get your free copy of Ashampoo Firewall Free.
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October 31st, 2006 at 6:04 pm
After ZoneAlarm, there are no more free firewall apps out there, nice find Carol!
Sadly, all the others got bought out and turned pay.
October 31st, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Oh..but but but…i installed yesterday Comodo Firewall and Antivirus on one of my laptops,which is as good as Zonealarm and it works very good.Plus,it has an easy interface and you can set up the rules very easy…block ports…etc.
This version of Ashampoo is like a lite version because they’ve got a Pro one too.
October 31st, 2006 at 6:14 pm
I have Ashampoo DVD Burning Studio and its great
October 31st, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Their products aren’t bad at all,i can say.
November 1st, 2006 at 12:59 am
The user interface also looks cool ashampoo. I will try it out in my lappy.
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November 1st, 2006 at 6:40 am
From the screenshot it looks very similar to McAfee,but of course free.
November 1st, 2006 at 10:03 am
I just read that another free antiv. -
AVG - will no more be free from Jan 15 2007.Sad!
That was reported as being false information.
From Grisoft web site:
“” GRISOFT is announcing a new version of the AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition. This new 7.5 version with improved performance and user interface is available. Users that are using AVG Free 7.1 will be provided with a specific dialog, within the next few weeks, with the opportunity to choose the right option fulfilling their needs. AVG Free 7.1 version will be discontinued on 15th of Jan 2007.”"
November 4th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Note this is not a flame nor trolling, just a few thoughts on this matter..
I generally don’t like freeware firewalls. Being freeware (and no source for a competent programmer to fix things!) in this case mostly serves as an excuse for stability issues, crappy performance, and general lack of features. Sorry, but I have to say that “Heavy-duty firewall protection” is sooo yesterday. Yes, that’s a plain old stateful & stateless OSI L3/L4 filtering that was available 10 years ago
Nowdays any personal firewall (no matter if freeware, opensource or commercial) *has* to have *at least* those features, including advanced OSI L7 analysis of HTTP streams (including subfeatures such as analysis of potentially bad XMLRPC, SOAP and other), Web script analysis (Javascript scanning), anti-phishing support (via DNSBL or some other way of blacklisting), spyware filtering, banner filtering, privacy protection (scanning outbound streams for configured) privacy data, OS-level monitoring (corelation between network traffic and changes in Windows registry etc).
As current trends obviously show, firewalls and antivirus programs are bound to become one, a complete all-in-one solution. I don’t think there is any future for firewall-only products.
Cheers,
D.
November 4th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
D.,i couldn’t agree more with you.It’s just…there are people who really can’t afford to buy software and as a result,they use freeware.
I know a freeware firewall isn’t much,but at least is something.
November 4th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Absolutely — from that point of view Ashampoo, Comodo and Jetico are probably quite usable.
Cheers,
D.