I expect to receive hundreds of Thumbs Down for this comment because, rather than correcting someone elses critique of how he/she feels the interface looks, and getting lots of thumbs up for so doing, I thought I might actually comment on the program offered here.

From what I can tell this has a pretty small footprint and one thing it does nicely is monitor any 'Phone home' behaviour of any software. It also asks if you wish to allow, for example,. a program software update (Which depending on the program in question, might or might not be unwanted).


NOT good is the fact that there are loads of settings that can be altered but doesn't give any idea of what or how so a lot of guesswork needed.

Best thing is this works alongside any 'Firewall' as this is designed to be an addition to the service carried out by your existing firewall.

I shall leave it running for now, but it seems to have more going for it than against - so far.

No Email needed to register - simple as it gets. Just copy/paste the code given into box which opens when button bottom left is clicked. Happy Days,

Terry I.  –  2 months ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+40)

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First impression, the GUI look's amateurish and one dimensional like the start of a game from the 1980's

sid  –  2 months ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (-20)

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sid, did you look at their site at all? And it's kind of hard to stylize tabular data. What's more important is whether the firewall works and is easy to use.

sid, did you look at their site at all? And it's kind of hard to stylize tabular data. What's more important is whether the firewall works and is easy to use.
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Leonard  –  2 months ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+28)

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The initial download is 1.07MBytes NOT the shown 101KBytes in the information panel.

Do not forget to uncheck "Enable Automatic Updates" in general settings once you have activated this giveaway. Note I would not recommend something like a 3rd party firewall from a giveaway that prohibits free updates since it is possible a security problem could prompt a critical update that the giveaway participant would not be entitled to for free and because they should disable automatic updates they likely will never be made aware the firewall has become unsafe.

TK  –  2 months ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+25)

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As far as I know, Windows has a firewall that is also enabled.

Andre Millot  –  2 months ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+24)

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A couple of quick notes:

I haven't downloaded this, so can't comment on it specifically, but the vast majority of Windows 10 "firewalls" are just front end controls for the existing Windows 10 firewall, which can do all sorts of decent stuff when you can talk to it. I don't know if this is that or not.

The other note is that there is no way, NO WAY, to be connected to the Internet and prevent the backdoor Microsoft uses to send a ton of your personal info to its servers. Since they control the OS, they can do just about anything with the outbound connections, and as they hoover endless info from your machine about your software, your browsing, your emails, pretty much everything you do, nothing currently exists to stop them from doing so.

Those freeware programs that claim to 'protect your privacy from Microsoft' are just nonsense. Yes, they stop a small amount of data from going out, but nothing can stop the wholesale theft of your info by Microsoft - it takes place far too deep inside the Win10 OS.

Why do you suppose it is that the disk access light on WIN10 desktop machines NEVER stops blinking from the instant you first boot WIN10?

dd  –  2 months ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+19)

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