free safe firewall

zone alarm is a great firewall. if your behind a router you dont need a firewall, just and av. Not sure of any other good fre firewalls.
 
Yeah, Zone Alarm is one of the best, if not the best. If you need a very good free anti-virus (better than most retail), I use and highly recommend Anti-Vir. It's been very good to me :).
 
you can check out the freeware thread, to see for free firewalls,
but Zonealarm is one of the best free ones out there
 
ZoneAlarm? No.

If you JUST want a firewall, download Tiny Personal Firewall 2. Simple GUI. Great security.

If you want APPLICATION SECURITY, too, get Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall. It's what TPF 2 has become after being bought and bought and bought. Still got great network security, just expanded more.
 
what i like about Alarm zone is that it alerts me to programs that are trying to access the internet. do the those programs do that?
 
diroga said:
what i like about Alarm zone is that it alerts me to programs that are trying to access the internet. do the those programs do that?
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Yea, Zonealarms my joint number 1 choice with sygate personal firewall. Unfortunately, ZA doesnt like to run very efficiently with 512 Ram on my computer, so im using Sygate until i upgrade
 
i agree but i read somewhere that zonealarm has some spyware attached with it. and it will send ur surfing habits to its servers.....
 
diroga said:
what i like about Alarm zone is that it alerts me to programs that are trying to access the internet. do the those programs do that?
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Mine do, and they don't suck up resources, either.
 
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