Need more SECURity on your computer? : Free Firewall

everybody needs a firewall because everything and anything is constantly trying to communicate without your knowledge, or permission. Microsoft applications are the biggest users [read: wasters] of your bandwidth, but most every application wants to check for updates, download patches, or send your information to a centralized database.

but im behind a router/firewall set up by my administrator! thats great, but not terribly effective. Its the out going traffic im commenting on, not the incoming stuff which you are, no doubt, protected from already.

so how do i protect my personal information? by adding a desktop firewall [one installed on your computer] to manage outgoing lan and wan traffic.

but windows comes with a firewall. yep, it sure does. have you even looked at it? or do you just trust it blindly? Its in your control panel. double click on 'firewall' and look at how its configured. it does not offer advanced application rules, it will not let you do any advanced configuration at all. and it does not block the traffic to microsoft. now really, why do you need to be connected to microsoft all day long? this is using your computer resources, and your internet connection!

Comodo software is offering a free firewall, with free updates, for life. there are other free firewalls, but in comparison, they are not even noteworthy. there are retail firewalls, that hook you for $30, $50, even more. they dont do the job Comodo does. i just deleted the "best" personal firewall from my computer yesterday.

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Ahart Chemical is not affiliated with Comodo Software, we do not receive compensation from Comodo, NOR do we offer technical support for it. But Comodo does. So contact them, or sign up at the Comodo forums if you need assistance.