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lanux128:
i hope by mentioning "a full firewall", you had meant a security suite with AV, anti-malware, etc thrown-in because there are a lot of firewall apps that are unobtrusive & light-weight. check out these threads where firewalls have been discussed before..

• Firewalls - please, i can't be bothered.
• Seeking opinions about combination antivirus/firewall products
• Best free firewall for Windows?
• What's wrong with XP's built-in firewall?
• The Great Firewall Hunt ... frustrating ...

crazyfabiboy:
Thank you for your answers.
Well, I was actually talking about a program more lightweight than a full firewall. I am already using Comodo, but as it's permanently running and taking 20k, and bothering me really often, I was just hoping for something more lean.
I personally don't have the feeling I need a firewall, as I'm sitting always (at work, at university, at home) behind a IPCop-Router, which I trust more than a personal firewall. But on the other hand, I'm not really into this whole firewall-thing, so my trust could be a bit naive :-)

Anyway, thanks again for your answers.

Veign:
With Comodo it will step in if an application is launched by a process.  So if you click a link in an email which causes Outlook to start Firefox, Comodo will step in even though you have given access to Firefox.

To fix this:
- Go to Security (from toolbar)
- Click Application Monitor in the sidebar
- Right click on an application and select Edit
- Select the Skip Parent Check option

See if that helps you. 

Also, 20K is really nothing.

tranglos:
Also, 20K is really nothing.
-Veign (October 08, 2007, 09:06 AM)
--- End quote ---

OP probably meant 20 MB :) But in a way it *is* nothing. I used Outpost for a very long time, but it was taking up 47 megs RAM, freshly installed. I finally said goodbye to it after it randomly stopped letting ftp traffic through (one day it worked, another day it did not), and several cycles of reinstalling and carefully reconfiguring the rules weren't helping.

With Comodo I've had a different problem recently. It was preventing a LAN connection between my desktop (where Comodo was running) and laptop. There was nothing I could find to tweak that would let the connection go through, and only disabling Comodo helped. So out it went.

As recently as a year ago, and certainly 2 years ago, I never had firewall-related issues, even though I was using ICS. But recent versions of all the firewalls I've tried seem to have become too complex for their own good, and there is always *something* that doesn't work and cannot be configured quite so. I had some hopes for Avira Security Suite (www.avira.com/en/produkte/avira_premium_security_suite.html), but it was giving me three blue screens a day.

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