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(Unverified)Oct 31st 2008 2:37AM
The Firewall is highly regarded and I persevered with it for about 4 months until it completely drove me crazy with its interference, its (occasional) memory demands (like 100% right out of the blue) and its incredible slowness whenever I wanted to install anything.
Also I had a few problems with set up and it took forever to find solutions in their fora - which were common problems with many frustrated users.
Ultimately I ended up with something wich snuck through and wrecked my XP instal entirely.
So I enjoyed a secure environment in Ubuntu for a while!
I doubt this is an improvement, I wonder as to the effectiveness of any firewall or virus checker but while avast is doing its job and I'm using a pretty well entirely non-intrusive firewall program I'm going to leave this to the security and firewall obsessives to waste their time and resources with!
(Unverified)Nov 29th 2008 9:34PM
Again, I reiterate that the overwhelming evidence from the vast majority of users says that the legitimate issues that you've experienced are unique to your Windows installation. I've personally installed the firewall in no less than 30 machines over the last couple of years and it is still on each and every one of them, often several versions later, working just fine.
Some of your complaints are rather silly and point to your inability to configure the product to work the way that you want it. It can be configured to where there are virtually no warnings or interuptions other than during an installation. I've never seen the 'slow-downs' you speak of, nor the resource issues, etc, other than one time.
The one occasion that I saw behavioral issues was in the case of a gent who read to many things in PC Mag Online, and had every damned useless utility known to man kind in his PC. I removed several of them, and his PC was and still is fine.
From their forums I do know that there are folks that experience issues, and I know that to those people the stress is very real. But since there are tens of thousands without problems as compared to the very small percentage with the problems, the evidence says that the issues have something to do with specific Windows installations and/or their configurations.
Until I experience an issue sufficient to make me lose my faith in it, or until something better comes along, I'll continue to use their Firewall. I'll have to wait and see on their AV software as that is still an unknown.