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Best free firewall for Windows?

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lanux128:
Well, outbound protection lets you know when something has gone wrong and can help minimize the damage.  I also like to make sure I know what the "benign" apps on my system are doing.-Liquidmantis (January 17, 2008, 01:55 PM)
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can't argue with that, if it works for you then there is a point to it..

f0dder:
Well, outbound protection lets you know when something has gone wrong and can help minimize the damage.  I also like to make sure I know what the "benign" apps on my system are doing.
-Liquidmantis (January 17, 2008, 01:55 PM)
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That is, theoretically, an argument in favor of outbound firewalling... problem is that anything worth protecting against will be using covert channels (ie, injecting code into internet explorer and communicating over port 80), so the net worth is... nothing.

nontroppo:
I don't remember about Windows firewalls, but my outbound filter Little Snitch gives you the parent app, so:

APPX called WGET to request blah on port 80

Thus you know from who the request is really from, not just who is making it. I'm pretty sure  many apps do this?

Liquidmantis:
Yup, and they monitor for code injection.

Armando:
Online Armor seems like a nice firewall too. There's a free version.



Some good comments at Wilders Security.
Seems to do good at the Matousec Leak Tests... for what it's worth (no idea).

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