Which Firewall Softwares Are Popular?
Have you or have you not installed a reliable firewall software on your system? It has been proven that stand-alone operating system is not optimized to prevent against organized network attacks.
Although major operating systems now have integrated firewalls, but they are often not secure enough or lack advanced features.
One should not delay installing and configuring firewall correctly. You may think that your computer has nothing valuable worth getting into, but your computer services and resources may be asset in themselves.
Sometimes hackers do not attack their targets directly, they do that from another persons’ computers to avoid detection.
Computer users are advised to use firewall produced by leading firewall software vendors. They are usually more secure and powerful than OS-integrated firewalls, not to mention frequently updated and improved.
Unfortunately, the leading firewall softwares differed much by their functionalities and efficiency, and one may be better than another in an area and vice versa.
Here are several top firewall softwares worth investing money in.
- BlackICE PC Protection
- Symantec Norton Firewall
- Last but not least, ZoneAlarm comes in free and paid versions
BlackICE PC Protection is a famous software firewall. It cloaks nearly all ports by default but it can be configured to recognize permitted applications and connections once you allow it to create a profile of existing applications. May cause your system to be vulnerable because outbound traffic is not properly secured.
Symantec Norton Firewall is easy to install and has advanced features such as ports cloaking, monitoring of applications’ outbound activity and intrusion attempts logging.
The only disadvantage lies in its complicated administrative and configuration interface.
The free version is sufficient for most home users. It is easy to configure, very secure and has advanced features like defining security zones and exemptions rules.
The free version is as good as the best software firewalls in the market, if not better. ZoneAlarm is highly recommended, although you may not make a wrong choice in any of the above 2 firewalls too.
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