Firewall rating

Published on April 9, 2008 By jebro In Personal Computing

I found this test (March 2008) of firewalls on the internet.

Hope some of you find it useful.

http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php#firewalls-ratings

Comments (Page 1)

ZubaZ

on Apr 09, 2008

Interesting.
I wish that the built in Windows firewall was included. That's what I use and have had no issues.

jebro

on Apr 09, 2008

I have a router instead of firewall. But I agree with you. It would be interesting to compare both Windows Vista and XP's firewall to others.

HG_Eliminator

on Apr 09, 2008

spiffy info..

Leo the Lion

on Apr 09, 2008

Interesting. ESET's result is really surprising.

bilbo1930

on Apr 09, 2008

hmm..agree with Leo... (

. suprising

kona0197

on Apr 09, 2008

Whenever I think of the word firewall I think of the word paranoid.

WebGizmos

on Apr 09, 2008

Gotta question these tests some times. I run Norton and I've put it through online firewall tests and "those" tests said I was invisible...

So how do you really know?

Philly0381

on Apr 09, 2008

The only test that means anything is the one you do with loading the software on your computer to see if it works. Well that's what I think, and I'm sticking with it.

eieio

on Apr 09, 2008

This is an older test, I believe, but it does have Windows builtin firewall results included ... they're not good

WWW Link

kona0197

on Apr 09, 2008

Gotta question these tests some times. I run Norton and I've put it through online firewall tests and "those" tests said I was invisible... So how do you really know?

Norton is the worse thing you can put on your computer. You are just asking for trouble.

eieio

on Apr 09, 2008

Norton is the worse thing you can put on your computer.

I would say a virus or a really nasty piece of spyware would be worse ... although just barely

Bichur

on Apr 09, 2008

Norton is the worse thing you can put on your computer.

I would say a virus or a really nasty piece of spyware would be worse ... although just barely

Both are easier to get rid of than Norton.

pjdark

on Apr 09, 2008

comodo firewall... wow. i got rid of that awhile back. guess i will see it again.

whatwhere

on Apr 09, 2008

i run norton and i've never had a problem with it...and i been doing computers for the past 15 years.

kona0197

on Apr 09, 2008

Well Whatwhere you need to talk to Jafo. He has a great sorry of what Norton can do to your computer.

Norton constantly gets bad marks in just about every test I've seen the professionals do with it.

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