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Aghh -- they've done it again ... avoid Agnitum Outpost 4 (at least for now)

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Carol Haynes:
Curt the biggest problems I have with Outpost 4 are almost constant system instability. This occurs even on a fresh install of Windows with only hardware drivers present. On my system this manifests itself as random reboots (no error logging just whoosh the system restarts) causing you to lose anything you were doing at the time, possible damage to anyfiles open and possible registry corruption if settings have not been updated fully at the time. This has even happened to me when I simpy click a hyperlink in Firefox !! Without Outpost the system is 100% stable - within minutes of installing I am suffering with these problems again.

Before you ask I don't seem to have any hardware that is malfunctioning or likely to be so whacky as to cause the issues: GeForce graphics, Soundblaster audio and a Hauppauge TV card + a few USB devices: Canon printer and scanner, Seagate USB hard disk and a USB keyboard.

Add to that a big system performance hit and the fact that I can't use my network storage at all with Outpost installed (even when it is not even running! I have tired disabling it from the tray and exiting it from the tray - plus I have made rules that allow every bit software, including DLLs, related to network storage have full network access and opened the port fully that Netgear suggest and it still doesn't work - no Outpost, no problems at all) and I think this version has some serious flaws.

I too have used it since version 2.5 and had similar issues when version 3 was released (as did most users). It does a company's reputation no good that the accepted advice is wait 6 months before installing any new release because their testing is so poor and each release is chock full of bugs and issues.

For me this is one step beyond the pale and Agnitum have lost a customer - particularly as they seem incapable of taking resposnsibilty in each release for the widely and well documented troubles they seem to cause.

Curt:
Curt the biggest problems I have with Outpost 4 are almost constant system instability.
-Carol Haynes (December 06, 2006, 02:53 AM)
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Some troubles!! No wonder you're gone!  >:(

Lashiec:
A new review of firewalls could come along... The present one is not exactly comprehensive, and it mostly praises Outpost (no offense here, at the time of the review it was the best option considering all things implicated). And the firewall world suffered a convulsion after th ;D ;De Kerio and Sygate debacle... at that time I thought the only free alternative for the future would be ZoneAlarm, but then Sunbelt Software came forward, and people discovered Comodo and netVeda, and everything went for the best ;D

I'm waiting for the results of the test that Scot Finnie is conducting on his own computers. At some point in the future, maybe I would post some mini-reviews since finally it seems that I'm getting my new computer as a Christmas present... complete with an Internet connection! ;D, so the firewall is going to be a must, and probably I would test all free ones, and maybe some of the paid, like the same Outpost or the full version of ZoneAlarm. I'll keep you informed :D

mouser:
I finally upgraded to outpost v4, and some of the features are really nice.

However, it frequently eats up half my cpu cycles for no apparent reason and drags my computer to a virtual stand still.  not cool.  i've just about had it with outpost and i'm ready to find something else.

KenR:
I finally upgraded to outpost v4, and some of the features are really nice.

However, it frequently eats up half my cpu cycles for no apparent reason and drags my computer to a virtual stand still.  not cool.  i've just about had it with outpost and i'm ready to find something else.
-mouser (October 14, 2007, 07:51 AM)
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Hey Jesse,

How long have you been using the software? I found it did this initially after install, but then stopped and did not do it again. I have been happily using it for some time without any problems. I am often in the process manager box and can tell you that most of the time it is using between 2-5% of cpu cycles. Maybe give it a while longer and see if things settle down.?

Ken

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