Two way firewall that is easy to use and free?

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zstevens

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Looking for a two way firewall that is easy to use and effective. I tried Commodo but it was complicated for me and would prevent a lot of good things from being downloaded. I'd like to hear some suggestions and thoughts on this from someone that has experience using different firewalls.

Thank You.
 
Unfortunately, Zone Alarm lost it's performance edge when Zone Labs got bought out.

You'll always get dissenting opinions about anti-virus and firewall apps, but an effective (almost frustratingly so) firewall is COMODO, once installed it alerts and/or stops all actions until you give it the OK, it does have an "Installation mode", but once you take it out of installation mode, it's alerts can almost get a little annoying because it alerts to most non-system or application activities, not just suspicious ones.

It will remember your choices if you wish it to, so after a while it stops being a pain in the *ss, but after a fresh install of itself or a new app, it can be a little bothersome for those new to firewalls.

BUT, as a free firewall it IS solid:
http://www.comodo.com/
 
Cold Canuck said:
Unfortunately, Zone Alarm lost it's performance edge when Zone Labs got bought out.

You'll always get dissenting opinions about anti-virus and firewall apps, but an effective (almost frustratingly so) firewall is COMODO, once installed it alerts and/or stops all actions until you give it the OK, it does have an "Installation mode", but once you take it out of installation mode, it's alerts can almost get a little annoying because it alerts to most non-system or application activities, not just suspicious ones.

It will remember your choices if you wish it to, so after a while it stops being a pain in the *ss, but after a fresh install of itself or a new app, it can be a little bothersome for those new to firewalls.

BUT, as a free firewall it IS solid:
http://www.comodo.com/
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+1

I have used COMODO aswell but it seems to hog resources so i went back to ZoneAlarm :)
 
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