The best free firewall..... Which one????

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SO,


Im wondering what everyones opinion is on the best free firewall...

Ive tried Zonealarm, and as everyone knows it has an issue where it eats up all your CPU, and barring that i think its probably the best one.

Theres other ones like black ice and stuff, obviously the built in Windows one is a little vague!!

So anyones opinions would be pretty interesting, with any luck ill start a war or something.....

 

[elmarcorulz]

Do a search using the search button. You will find millions of threads on this.

 

[SFR]

As elmarcorulz mentioned, there are many threads on this topic throughout the forum.

Check out Download.com

I recently started using Kerio Firewall and really like it. Also look at Sygate and Jetico.

 

[tweaker]

Ive tried Zonealarm, and as everyone knows it has an issue where it eats up all your CPU

Nothing I've noticed, runs fine on my systems.

obviously the built in Windows one is a little vague!!

People have different opinions, but for the average joe the FW in SP2 ain't that bad.

Sygate is a nice alternative to Zonealarm though:
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

 

[Hairy_Lee]

i was happy with the windows xp sp2 firewall, then i started using norton antivirus which had its own firewall so i stopped using the windows one.

 

[mpic92]

I have Zone Labs fire wall and it doesnt seem to slow down the computer.