Alliteration aside, the most popular firewall program I see recommended on this site, outside of the one built into Windows, is Comodo Firewall. While there is certainly nothing at all wrong with it, if you are looking to explore alternatives then PC Tools Firewall Plus is worth a look.

PC Tools Firewall Plus is advanced technology designed especially for people, not just experts. Powerful prevention against attacks and known exploits is activated by default while experienced users can optionally create their own advanced packet filtering rules, including IPv6 support, to customize the network defenses. All you need to do is install it for immediate and automatic ongoing protection.

Basically, everything you would expect to find in a firewall package is there. I imagine the difference between Comodo and PC Tools Firewall Plus would be small if any, so it would boil down to personal preference.

Has anyone tried both and if so, which one did you prefer?

China, one of the world’s oldest civilizations (far older than the United States), has had its troubles over the years trying to handle this thing called internet.

Recently the powers that be in those parts mandated that every single new computer sold must have net-filtering software on it.

The people didn’t take too kindly to this and protested the crap out of it. As such, China backed off and said the software could be uninstalled without getting in trouble for it.

For those of you who work in office environments, imagine for a moment that WebSense (yes, that filtering software we all hate) was forced to be installed on your computer at home, and that it was illegal to uninstall it. In a nutshell, that’s what Green Dam Youth Escort software was like.

China is no stranger to blocking internet content. Golden Shield Project is one way they do it. The people of that nation already have to deal with that. But when it came to software directly installed on their PCs, they’d had enough.

Thumbs up for the people; their voices were heard.

These features let you control what you let connect to your wireless network and what can pass through from the Internet to the local networks. By default, anyone and anything can connect to your wireless network, and there is no traffic from the Internet allowed to pass through to any computer on the local network.

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