Re: free firewall

On 29 Aug 2006 20:16:47 -0700, melih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


B. Nice wrote:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:09:12 GMT, "leon" <who@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"huck" <fish254@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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looking for a great FREE Firewall = not zoneAlarm
thanks


This works ok:
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/


In what respect? - The user interface sucks and gives false
information to the user.

i can't argue about your taste in GUI, you don't like it, you don't
like it..
what wrong information though? thats fairly serious and I would like to
get this corrected asap.
thanks
melih

I made a posting about it in this group on July 29th, but to summarize
it:

When I tried it back then, it would tell me nonsense like:

"<some application> is trying to connect to the internet on remote IP
127.0.0.1"

or

"<some application> is trying to connect to the internet on remote IP
192.168.x.x port 53"


Furthermore the socalled "security considerations" - even though I
admire the attempt to provide a lot of information to base a descision
on - simply provide useless information for anyone except a
technically skilled person with good knowledge about the ins and outs
of windows. The pop-ups I got, running it on a clean machine, was
overwhelming - I question how many would have been able to make the
right descisions if malware had been present on the machine also -
that is, if comodo would notice those, of course.

Comodo firewall is definately not for novices.


BTW, I know that my comment was a little harsh, but I don't like when
people just throw in a link to a product providing no other arguments
than "this works okay". That seems more like advertising to me.
.

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