Top 11 Firewall Software

Firewall can prevent attack from network to protect your computer. When someone tries to tamper with your computer, the firewall will alert you.

1. ZoneAlarm Pro

ZoneAlarm Pro is a powerful utility for protecting your PC from viruses, spam, and spyware. It also provides a firewall and protects against identity theft, phishing, and monitors email attachments. I reviewed this product when it first came out and decided to take another look.

2. Outpost Firewall Pro

Outpost Firewall Pro provides the first line of defense against malicious software by proactively controlling how programs behave and interact on a PC and preventing security breaches. The Host Protection module proactively monitors for and blocks sophisticated hacking techniques used to compromise or steal data. By analyzing threats and displaying actionable alerts, Host Protection blocks zero-day attacks and other unauthorized activities, providing advanced protection against botnets, rootkits and inadvertent data disclosure.

3. Norman Personal Firewall

Protect yourself with the best personal firewall available. This powerful security program utilizes computer and port stealthing technology to ensure your computer is invisible to hackers. The advanced stateful inspection of incoming and outgoing traffic controls data sessions and prevents your computer from being used in botnets, hijacked or exposed by other hostile activities.

4. eConceal Pro

eConceal Pro for Windows is a powerful, highly advanced Network Firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks via the Internet or Local Area Network. eConceal Pro offers customizable security with user-defined rules for Packet Filtering and Access Control. Working at a low level, it allows you to create rules based on non-IP protocols such as ARP, while supporting multiple network adapter configurations.

5. InJoy Firewall

The InJoy Firewall is a flexible firewall security solution for organizations of all sizes. It offers enterprise-class next-generation security, preconfigured policy templates - including full customization options, seamless IPSec VPN integration, superior gateway capability, intuitive management, access control, a wealth of documented deployment examples, unmatched control, and comprehensive documentation.

6. Comodo Personal Firewall

Comodo Firewall Pro offers the highest levels of perimeter security against inbound and outbound threats: -Protection against hackers, malware and identity thieves. -New Stealth Mode that makes your PC invisible to hackers and port scans. -Highly configurable rules interface (for advanced users). -Wizard based auto-detection of trusted zones.

7. BlackICE PC Protection

BlackICE teams a personal firewall with an advanced intrusion detection system to constantly watch your Internet connection for suspicious behavior. BlackICE responds immediately by alerting you to trouble and instantly blocking the threat.

8. Sygate Personal Firewall PRO

Sygate Personal Firewall Pro protects your system from intrusions designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Internet and Intranet communication. It is the ultimate desktop security solution trusted by professionals and relied upon by millions of users.

9. Norton Personal Firewall

Norton Personal Firewall lets you customize each filter category. You can add new rules to allow, block, or watch connections based on connection type-your connection to computers or from computers. You can add rules for different protocols as well.

10. McAfee Personal Firewall

Protect yourself while online with the advanced security of McAfee Personal Firewall Plus. Easy-to-use, yet highly configurable, McAfee Personal Firewall Plus v5.0 secures your PCs connection to the Internet whether you connect via DSL, cable modem or dial-up.

11. Jetico Personal Firewall

Jetico Personal Firewall protects your computer from hackers, viruses, trojan programs, other external and internal threats to your computer and your data. Three levels of protection are included: low-level network packets filtering, application-level network events filtering and filtering of user-level process activity.

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