Anyone still stuck using windows XP? Than, installing additional firewall would almost be a must to replace the windows XP build in firewall. One of the good free alternative would be PC Tools Firewall Plus v7, It provides two-way protection that monitors inbound and outbound network connections. The personal firewall is also a rule-based firewall which means you can be in control which applications can use the connection. It's a perfect free firewall for Windows (as you probably already know, a firewall can help protect against unsolicited modification or connection attempts).
Installing PC Tools Firewall Plus v7, is very easy, but just like most free product it's being bundled with a rather unnecessarily additional product, in the PC Tools Firewall Plus v7 case, it's being bundled with Google toolbar in PC tools installer, but don't worry, you could just simply uncheck the box to prevent the installation of any unnecessary toolbar or changes in the browser's start and search pages. After the installation process finish, the firewall program by PC Tools will detect the active connection and running the necessary firewall services.
PC Tools rovide useful and neat features in their personal firewall., not only it can protect against intruders, but it can also monitor every network request by applications. It can also notify the user about applications that tries to inject or modify another application without the user's knowledge.
The free firewall provides application logging of the firewall and network activity. If you enable application logging, PC Tools Firewall Plus' history window will display the activities of Firefox or other programs. But by default, if you didn't modify the application rules, the history window in the firewall program will always be empty, even if you use the default setting to auto-refresh logging of network and firewall activities.
PC Tools personal firewall also includes the ability to block all network connections on the computer that it is securing which is a handy command that Symantec has removed in its Norton Internet Security's notification tray icon.
Installing PC Tools Firewall Plus v7, is very easy, but just like most free product it's being bundled with a rather unnecessarily additional product, in the PC Tools Firewall Plus v7 case, it's being bundled with Google toolbar in PC tools installer, but don't worry, you could just simply uncheck the box to prevent the installation of any unnecessary toolbar or changes in the browser's start and search pages. After the installation process finish, the firewall program by PC Tools will detect the active connection and running the necessary firewall services.
PC Tools rovide useful and neat features in their personal firewall., not only it can protect against intruders, but it can also monitor every network request by applications. It can also notify the user about applications that tries to inject or modify another application without the user's knowledge.
The free firewall provides application logging of the firewall and network activity. If you enable application logging, PC Tools Firewall Plus' history window will display the activities of Firefox or other programs. But by default, if you didn't modify the application rules, the history window in the firewall program will always be empty, even if you use the default setting to auto-refresh logging of network and firewall activities.
PC Tools personal firewall also includes the ability to block all network connections on the computer that it is securing which is a handy command that Symantec has removed in its Norton Internet Security's notification tray icon.
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