For your $29.97 you'll get a lifetime license for 3 PCs.-Innuendo (February 24, 2012, 12:27 PM)
Current offer is for 1 PC only (Single license). But you may upgrade from this Single license to Personal Pack (up to 3 PCs) for $20 by contacting our Support Team, they will provide you the proper link.-Natalia Solovyeva, Agnitum
As for you, Ms. Diva....firewall tutoring is available upon request. ;)-Innuendo (February 28, 2012, 09:33 AM)
Great add-on for the Windows firewall http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.htmlgreat find, berry! What a great little tool.
The free is very good. The "Plus" is - well, a plus :) And BTJ had it on sale sometime back and it was a plus+plus.
cheers
whoops - sorry if this is considered "off-topic". If so, please let me know.-berry (February 29, 2012, 12:33 PM)
I may eventually take you up on your offer, but for the moment, I'm content with the Windows 7 firewall, which required nothing more of me than to turn it on. That much I can manage on my own. :)-cyberdiva (February 29, 2012, 10:14 AM)
whoops - sorry if this is considered "off-topic". If so, please let me know.-berry (February 29, 2012, 12:33 PM)
There's nothing wrong at all with the Windows 7 firewall if all you are concerned with is stuff trying to get in. Where its weak point lies is with things trying to get out. Lots of programs try to phone home (some are benign and others not so much) so it depends on how important that aspect of your security/privacy is.-Innuendo (February 29, 2012, 01:17 PM)
Great add-on for the Windows firewall http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.html
The free is very good. The "Plus" is - well, a plus :) And BTJ had it on sale sometime back and it was a plus+plus.-berry (February 29, 2012, 12:33 PM)
I'd rate W7FC as definitely worth trying out - "suck it and see". :Thmbsup:I'm still using it. I thought about upgrading it to the paid version two nights ago, but then decided it was unnecessary - the combination of Windows 7 Firewall and W7FC has shown itself to be a really effective and minimalist approach. (Suits me anyway.)-IainB (November 10, 2011, 07:04 AM)
-when you add all these rules to Windows Firewall Control, doesn't they slow things down so much that Outpost would be (almost) just as quick?-Curt (March 02, 2012, 01:31 AM)
You're aware free W7FC only monitors certain folders?I didn't know it monitored any folders. I thought it was just a firewall control.-Bionic71 (March 01, 2012, 06:08 PM)
WFC sits in the background watching the Windows Eventlog, when it sees a program attempting to connect to the network it opens a requester and you can add a rule to Windows Firewall to allow/block.Thanks. Interesting info.-4wd (March 02, 2012, 03:32 AM)
IMPORTANT
How are the notifications created and why they are sometimes so slow or missing ?
"Learning Mode" uses the Security Event log. It checks at every 0.3 seconds the last entry from this log. If the event recorded has the ID the number 5157, it means it found a blocked connection, and continues to analyze the message. It reads the content of the message recorded in the log file, it analyzes the message and extract the info needed to show in notification. If the direction is "Outbound" and the message is not older than three seconds, it displays the notification to the user.
All the things above are made 3 times a second. When you start your web browser and it attempts to make a connection, Windows Firewall writes a new entry in the security event log, with info about your web browser connection. Here takes place WFC to show you the notification. Usually, the last entry is generated by the last program you use to connect to the internet.
Things should be easy, but sometimes svchost.exe receives 30-40 inbound connections attempts in one second, also with the number ID 5157, but with direction "Inbound". These connections are also appended to the security event log, so if you start your web browser and then you receive 20 attempts of inbound connections to svchost.exe, the last entry would be for svchost.exe instead of your browser. WFC reads for 3 times in a second the last entry, but the last entry is from svchost.exe inbound connection.
The result is that you are not notified about your browser. In this case you must press on the refresh button to make the web browser to attempt a new connection, so it can be catched by WFC properly.
When svchost.exe stays quiet, the notifications are showed very prompt. When it starts with a blast of inbound connections it affects the performance of Learning Mode. Unfortunately there is no way to make the system not to log the inbound blocked connections, and this polutes the security event log with thousands garbage entries. And all these are readed by WFC in dozens of steps, for every entry.