BartWare Personal Firewall 3.0.2

[Ian Edmont]

I just installed Safety.Net an hour ago, after removing ZoneAlarm.
So far, so good. It shows some different stuff that ZoneAlarm
didn't show, but I'm assuming that is just differences between the
two programs. It seems lighter in resources than ZoneAlarm -- has
a lighter feel to it, anyway. ShieldsUp reports it as fully
stealthed. Unless it buggers up on me, I'm going to keep it.

Good init! Glad I could have given some useful info.

Just one other thing, while we have been on the subject of firewalls, I have
tried Sygate again and for some reason ShieldsUp reports that port 135
(DCOM) is now open!?!? Followed instruction how to disable and it's still
open! All other ports 0-1056 are stealthed bar 135.

Going back to Safety.Net for time being until I get a new more powerful
machine.

Ian.

 

[ceg]

If you have a question that's not listed there, I'd like to know.

does your webserver allow virtual hosts?

 

[S.O. Meone]

Comodo will be launching a Release Candidate of the Comodo Firewall
which will have much reduced mem usage.

PC Mag.:
"Comodo Personal Firewall 2.0 installs inside the Comodo Launch Pad, a
control center that pulls together various free and free-trial
products from Comodo."

What is its memory usage. Such a "launch pad" is not a good thing
(unnecessary overhead) if you want to install only one component, e.g.
the firewall.

S.O. Meone

 

[bMorphus]

Safety.Net was blocking my browser at odd times, and I found
explorer.exe was giving itself permission to access the Internet,
even though I had it blocked. Didn't like that much.

Here IE got permisson which I had never given. Moreover Safety.Net
blocked port 119 (nttp) andI could not find a way to fix that. It used
about 14 Mb RAM on my system.

The latest version of ZoneAlarm is over 13 megs, but if you go
back a version or two it's only 10 megs. I'm running ZA 6.1.737
now and it seems to work.

Wthat's the actually RAM usage? I run ZA 5.5, ZClient uses about 4.2
Mb.

Exit Safety.Net ! Back to ZA 5.5.

bMorphus

 

[KonradK]

Hello everyone!

I've been working for a while on a new version of my firewall, and
I've combined the features people liked from version 1 (for Win9x)
and 2 (WinXP). I've mainly designed this firewall to manage outgoing
connections.

Note: this firewall is only compatible with Windows XP (or any other
NT5 platform such as Win2k and Win2k3)

Nice piece of software, i realy like it. However I found some minor
issues:

1) The aplications main windows should be scalable. For example I use
bigger fonts (120 DPI) and the main windows is little bit too small.

2) Even if you have ticked in settings menu option "Hide the main
windows on startup" when you start firewall manually from icon, the
mentioned main windows appears every time. Not a big problem.

3) When i started emule it of course asked me what i gonna do with it.
It recognised emule as some kind of trojan horse Which of course it
isnt. Anyway when i clicked to get google info on emule process
everything freezes. I mean Firewall, Emule and Opera. When i closed
firewall from taskmanager everything back to normal. I have a lot
applications started at the same time, but it should not affect your
firewall. It is definitely worth checking.

4) When i first time started Foobar2000 audio app to listen internet
radio, i found that at very beginning it started to play some beats,
but afterwards firewall stopped transmission and music turns into loop.
Then it asked me what i am going to do with foobar. It means that there
was some connection before firewall detected it.

I realy like the way you did this nice application. I am not a paranoid
user, and i dont realy need any firewall software, but this is the only
firewall solution i found that it has realy good connection monitoring
(realy godd for my needs). And i realy like that i can close every
single connection or even exe file. I need it realy only to block some
application (proper) to stop connecting to the Internet. And for me it
works fine. Very good features not seen in other applications.

Hopefully i was helpful

 

[badger]

Nice piece of software, i realy like it. However I found some minor
issues:[/QUOTE]

Yes a very nice piece of work! Thank you.

1) The aplications main windows should be scalable. For example I useh
bigger fonts (120 DPI) and the main windows is little bit too small.

Same request here, I like to have access to the full path etc.
Possibly a default control is used because I can think of a good
dozen other programs inc firewalls that also don't offer a resize.

I realy like the way you did this nice application.
<snip>

Hopefully i was helpful

Agree totally!


badger

 

[BartWare]

Forgot to reply here, sorry. I replied by mail however, KonradK and
badger.

I'll answer your question one by one.

1: I am currently working on this issue, thank you for notifying me,
however. It will be fixed in 3.0.3.

2: This option was intended to work only at boot time, I should have
maybe clarified this a bit more. I will enable this option for manual
start ups aswell in 3.0.3.

3: The 'possible uses' for the ports are done by port definitions, and
they are only for users who aren't sure what the program is. I've
listed all major trojans (and keyloggers, etc) and see what ports they
use, and that's what the program reads. I maybe should make this a bit
clearer aswell.

4: This could be because of cached information if you have listened to
the station before.
If not, it's a bug I'm also trying to fix in 3.0.3.

Hope this answers your questions.

Bart

Nice piece of software, i realy like it. However I found some minor
issues:

Yes a very nice piece of work! Thank you.

1) The aplications main windows should be scalable. For example I useh
bigger fonts (120 DPI) and the main windows is little bit too small.

Same request here, I like to have access to the full path etc.
Possibly a default control is used because I can think of a good
dozen other programs inc firewalls that also don't offer a resize.

I realy like the way you did this nice application.
<snip>

Hopefully i was helpful

Agree totally!


badger[/QUOTE]