im looking for a SIMPLE,JUST A FIREWALL for my vista.i dont want any registry guard,malware guard,spam guard,system guard,body guard... or ballons flying on my desktop telling me my registry has been ACCESSED by explorer.exe

i used to love my free sygate firewall until Syamntec decided to ruin my life and other's like they always do.

i just want a simple firewall that monitor and control my application/system network activity and might have some default attack detection and runs on vista.

i would really appreciate it if someone point out a good software

Edited November 20, 200718 yr by Woomera

i havent used it in forever but:

http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/com...reeDownload.jsp

just a firewall. its free too so nothing to loose by downloading it.

http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/cat...mp;lid=db_trial

Have you tried the Firewall built into Vista? It has a significant feature that was absent from previous versions of Windows, namely outbound filtering. I actually still need to try it.

Configure Vista Firewall to support outbound packet filtering

http://searchwindowssecurity.techtarget.co...1247138,00.html

Recomended reading for anyone :

http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-p...sts-results.php

They haven't tested the Vista Firewall yet but I reckon it is going to fare badly.

Edited November 21, 200718 yr by eidenk

I actualy dont trust microsoft any security product and zonealarm products always end-up getting uninstalled due to system resource hugging and random error's...

A good firewall (and free also) that supports Vista [x32/x64] is Comodo Firewall v3.0.

Jetico,Outpost Firewall, EndpointSecurity also support Vista, but are commercial.

Edited November 21, 200718 yr by Win2k3EE

A good firewall (and free also) that supports Vista [x32/x64] is Comodo Firewall v3.0.

Jetico,Outpost Firewall, EndpointSecurity also support Vista, but are commercial.

I would also recommend Comodo, although I don`t run it myself.

ok so i thought id give a beta/RC release of a software a try for the firstime and i installed comodo3.i gotta confess its one hell of a firewall.

exactly what i wanted.so much better organized and featured than the version 2