Looking for a good firewall
Count Four:
I've been using Zone Alarm, which works just fine, except that program 'updates' are in the neighborhood of 45MB. That takes five to six hours to download on my shitty dial up connection.
Any recommendations for other free firewalls, which are reliable and, above all, small? Or at least smaller than 45MB. I've been looking around, but opinions from people who have used other programs can be helpful.
JerseyGirlOOOO:
This one from download.com is 6.68MB
http://www.download.com/PC-Tools-Firewall-Plus-Free-Edition/3000-10435_4-10625321.html
jsalemi:
I've used Comodo, and found it small, fast, and unobtrusive.
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
SaraMK:
Comodo has been my choice for years. The only thing that annoys me is that it clearly has its hooks deep in the system, because even after fully shutting it down (including its service) it will continue to block certain actions (like activating stuff from giveawayoftheday.com). How it does that, I don't know, except that something must be running without showing up, which annoys me.
Count Four:
Quote from: SaraMK on 2008 December 08, 16:11:32
Comodo has been my choice for years. The only thing that annoys me is that it clearly has its hooks deep in the system, because even after fully shutting it down (including its service) it will continue to block certain actions (like activating stuff from giveawayoftheday.com). How it does that, I don't know, except that something must be running without showing up, which annoys me.
That would aggravate me so much. I'm on the verge of uninstalling iTunes because every time I start it --which is rare, I only use it for ripping CDs to my computer-- it adds its services (or whatever) back to the startup.
I'm looking into the one JerseyGirl0000 mentioned, though, thanks.
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