A Nice, SIMPLE Firewall?

Zonealarm has never liked my computer and for mysterious reasons has always made it drag ass. My dad has Comodo, but I don't appreciate it or any kind of Firewall that simply assumes everything is an attack until you figure out how to tell it something isn't.

Simply put, I want something like Little Snitch for Mac-simple allow or deny/always or once or never again, so if any crapware (read:malware) I don't know about tries to phone home I'll know about it and can can it. No assuming some IP trying to ping me is a hack attack, but ask me if I know them, basically.

And I do nicely with Avast and Adaware and Spybot S & D. I just need a good, SIMPLE, easy-on-the-resources firewall like I just described. Hopefully something exists like that with all these crappy all-in-one cutie suites.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can solve this for me. One time Google didn't help me much.

#464454

I have this one http://www.eset.com/beta/, it's just a beta, but it works perfect in my system, and the firewall is very silent. btw it uses a low resources from my machine... sorry for my bad english =)

#464479

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/search.php?searchid=2197714

i'm sure this question has been asked before, try the third thread in the link above, its the big one and people have probably discussed which one is simplest

so far as i've heard, zonealarm's recent versions phone home to tell what your computer has been up to, and there is no easy way to disable it correctly..I used to use it but now use Outpost firewall, it basically does exactly what you've said, allow always or allow once.

#464498

Personally, I like Comodo. Once you have it set up you hardly get bothered with anything. It sounds like your dad has it set up the way he likes it to have a little more control.

Since you have avast why not give their web shield a try?

#464514

I have the web scanning on, if that's what you mean. Or do they have firewall too?

*goes to look*

Yeah, I have the Web Shield on and have for ages. It's saved my bacon before, but I need something for the outgoing.

Any other suggestions? I don't feel like taking the subscription plunge but thanks for the suggestion about Outpost.

#464550

Personally, I'm not going to endorse Avast solely as a firewall but, from what I've read when using the Web Shield and Network Shield you are pretty much covered.

Then again I don't know where you're poking around on the net?

I'm not sure you'll find a firewall that doesn't require you to set up some rules. I'd like to know if there is one. This site might help you out, it's ran by the same guys who run Snapfiles-->http://www.spychecker.com/

#464557

I would suggest you to get a router. That's the best.

#464568

I have a router holding down the ports, Avast Web Shield, and Windows Firewall, and that Vundo thing still managed to creep into my computer. Hence why I'd like a "Little Snitch".

And yes, I imagine you would have to set up some rules for some things, but I shouldn't have to explain to it in IP terms that a computer on the network I'm sitting on locally isn't a hack attempt. My dad's is like that because neither one of us could figure out how to set it without manually entering the not-so-static IP address.

I'll give spychecker a look.

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