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Outpost and Jetico improved greatly, FWC has a new leader (2008/07/04 13:57)
We have a new leader in our Firewall Challenge. Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 6.5.2355.316.0597 scored 99% and was close to a perfect score! Another product tested today – Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.2.4.2264 – scored amazingly well compared to its previously tested version. The difference between old and new Jetico Personal Firewall is almost 50%. We have also tested Ashampoo FireWall FREE 1.20 and G DATA InternetSecurity 2008 but their results are not worth mentioning.
Online Armor takes it back (2008/06/28 19:30)
Tall Emu Pty Ltd requested a free test of the paid version of its popular product. The paid version of Online Armor Personal Firewall 2.1.0.131 scored 98% and took the lead back from Comodo. We have also tested a new version of ZoneAlarm Pro and the latest version of Filseclab Personal Firewall today. Check Firewall Challenge pages for more information.
Comodo takes the lead (2008/05/17 11:05)
We have tested the latest versions of Comodo Firewall Pro and Online Armor Personal Firewall Free. These products had a perfect score after the last testing. We have implemented several new tests to differentiate between them. CFP passed almost all the new tests while OA had problems with keyloggers. Oddly, the new version of CFP did not pass some of the tests that its older version passed, but CFP's results are still excellent and enough for the first place in our challenge.
We have also tested some new products. These are, sorted by their final score: Lavasoft Personal Firewall, Webroot Desktop Firewall, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, F-Secure Internet Security 2008 and Panda Internet Security 2008. Visit Firewall Challenge for the complete results.
New tests added to SSTS and FWC (2008/05/06 12:42)
We have implemented three new tests and added them to Security Software Testing Suite (SSTS) and also to Firewall Challenge (FWC). There are two new performance tests, PerfTCP and PerfUDP, that measure the impacts of using personal firewall on the network performance. The last new test is called SockSnif and it tests the protection against unwanted packet sniffing. Firewall Challenge now contains 73 tests.
In past few weeks, we have focused on implementation of new tests. In upcoming weeks, we will focus more on testing again.
Online Armor recommendation (2008/05/02 18:09)
We have joined Tall Emu's affiliate program and so you can now buy commercial versions of Online Armor Personal Firewall through our pages and thus support our Firewall Challenge project.
ShadowHook and keylogger tests to Firewall Challenge (2008/04/24 19:40)
We have implemented seven new keylogger tests to Security Software Testing Suite and together with ShadowHook we have added them to Firewall Challenge. We have 70 tests in the system of Firewall Challenge now. Newly tested products as well as new versions of already tested products are always tested against all the tests in the system on levels that they reach.
Firewall Challenge recommendations (2008/04/20 15:16)
Firewall Challenge revealed several notable security products. We have decided to recommend the best products to you via affiliate programs of their vendors. Every product that scores at least 80% in the challenge and thus receives our mark of Very good or Excellent Protection level may become a recommended product. We contact the vendors of such products in order to join their affiliate programs. The vendors that agree and provide us the necessary technical instruments will be linked from the result page of Firewall Challenge.
What does it mean for end users? If you like Firewall Challenge, you can help us and support this project by buying one of the recommended products through the links in Firewalls' ratings table. To get more information about how does it work, please read How you can help us paragraph on the index page of Firewall Challenge.
We start our recommendations with affiliate programs of Agnitum Ltd. and Kaspersky Lab. If you are going to buy any of their products or prolong your license, you can help us by doing so through our links. In the next weeks we will try to join affiliate programs of vendors of other great products tested in Firewall Challenge.
ShadowHook (2008/04/14 12:26)
We are happy to publish the second version of BSODhook utility codenamed ShadowHook. The original version supported the native SSDT calls only, the new version adds support for the GDI SSDT calls. We have also made BSOShook a separate project with its own project web page.
FWC update (2008/04/06 13:09)
We have tested eight more products in Firewall Challenge. System Safety Monitor confirmed its qualities, Norton Internet Security 2008 was significantly worse, but still better than AVG Internet Security, FortKnox Personal Firewall 2008, iolo Personal Firewall, Look 'n' Stop 2.06, PC Tools Firewall Plus and Rising Personal Firewall that failed completely.