Am only interested in free software, not pay stuff. Also please only answer if you have experience of using both at some point.
P.S. Currently use avast antivirus. Are there any conflicts with this?
FREE firewalls only - Zone Alarm or Comodo?viruses
Hello,
(ANS) I can only tell you about my own experience with Zone Alarm, I have used Zone Labs free basic firewall for over 5years now ( Zone Alarm version 2.361) its a very fine product and possibly one of the best pieces of free software I have on my XP Pro workstation.
**What is important to understand is how a firewall protects you, with Zone Alarm it uses SPI (stateful packet inspection) which works at a very low level of the OSI networking model. SPI is a well proven method of protection is extremely tough and robust against attacks. If you care to look at almost any half decent router (wired or wireless) no matter what the model or make they all use SPI as the method of protection.
NOTE: SPI is FAR more powerful than just packet filtering firewalls.
**With Zone Alarm the product is used by literally millions of users world wide, I think that says something by itself.
**Zone Alarm is almost set it %26 forget it once you have given the correct permissions to various programs i.e inbound %26 outbound access.
**until you have a firewall installed and working you wont fully appreciate how valuable a firewall really is. My machine gets attacked or probed, pinged all the time but Zone Alarm just sits there protecting my system so its like water off a ducks back.
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