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Friday, October 10, 2008

Firewall Challenge (the best personal firewall)

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The table below sorts the tested products by their total score, which is displayed in the Product score column. The second number in this column, separated by a slash, represents a number of tests that were in the system when the given product was tested, i.e. the number of tests with a valid test result value (other value than N/A). This table also shows the exact version of every tested product. The Level reached column presents the highest level that the product reached in Firewall Challenge. If it passed all levels, this number is suffixed with a plus sign. For products that score at least 80% in Firewall Challenge, the Recommendation column contains links to the online stores or products' webpages of the vendors that we have affiliate agreements with. If you click on any of these links and then buy the target product or other product offered on the target webpage, we will profit from it. This is one of the ways how you can support this project. The PDF document icon allows you to download the testing report in PDF format for the tested product.

Product
Product scoreLevel reachedProtection levelRecom-
mendation
Report
ico Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 6.5.2355.
316.0597
99% / 73 10 Excellent GET IT NOW! pdf
ico Online Armor Personal Firewall 2.1.0.131 98% / 73 10 Excellent GET IT NOW! pdf
ico Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.22.349 95% / 73 10+ Excellent GET IT NOW! pdf
ico ProSecurity 1.43 93% / 62 10 Excellent N/A pdf
ico Privatefirewall 6.0.19.29 90% / 73 10+ Excellent GET IT NOW! pdf
ico Online Armor Personal Firewall 2.1.0.131 FREE 89% / 73 10 Very good GET IT NOW! pdf
ico Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.454 87% / 73 10+ Very good GET IT NOW! pdf
ico Netchina S3 2008 3.5.5.1FREE 86% / 73 9 Very good N/A pdf
ico ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 8.0.020.000 86% / 73 10+ Very good GET IT NOW! pdf
ico PC Tools Firewall Plus 4.0.0.45FREE 85% / 73 10+ Very good GET IT NOW! pdf
ico Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.2.4.2264 78% / 73 7 Good Not recommended pdf
ico System Safety Monitor 2.3.0.612 77% / 62 7 Good Not recommended pdf
ico Norton Internet Security 2009 16.0.0.125 71% / 73 7 Good Not recommended pdf
ico Lavasoft Personal Firewall 3.0.2293.8822 70% / 73 7 Good Not recommended pdf
ico Dynamic Security Agent 2.0.11.22FREE 62% / 71 7 Poor Not recommended pdf
ico Webroot Desktop Firewall 5.5.10.20FREE 60% / 73 7 Poor Not recommended pdf
ico Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4.18.184FREE 55% / 73 7 Poor Not recommended pdf
ico Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 16.10.0.1106 27% / 73 4 None Not recommended pdf
ico G DATA InternetSecurity 2008 19% / 73 3 None Not recommended pdf
ico FortKnox Personal Firewall 2008 3.0.195.0 16% / 62 2 None Not recommended pdf
ico Look 'n' Stop 2.06 15% / 62 2 None Not recommended pdf
ico McAfee Internet Security 2009 10.0.209 12% / 73 2 None Not recommended pdf
ico F-Secure Internet Security 2008 8.00.101 12% / 73 2 None Not recommended pdf
ico Panda Internet Security 2008 12.01.00 12% / 73 2 None Not recommended pdf
ico Avira Premium Security Suite 8.1.00.206 11% / 70 2 None Not recommended pdf
ico Rising Personal Firewall 2008 20.59.10 11% / 73 2 None Not recommended pdf
ico BitDefender Internet Security 2009 12.0.10.2 7% / 73 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico Sunbelt Personal Firewall 4.6.1839.0 7% / 73 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico AVG Internet Security 8.0.93 6% / 62 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico Ashampoo FireWall FREE 1.20FREE 5% / 73 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico ESET Smart Security 3.0.621.0 5% / 62 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico Windows Live OneCare 2.0.2500.22 5% / 62 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico BullGuard Internet Security 8.0.0.13 4% / 70 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico iolo Personal Firewall 1.5.2.7 3% / 62 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico Filseclab Personal Firewall 3.0.3.8982FREE 3% / 73 1 None Not recommended pdf
ico Steganos Internet Security 2008 7.5.509 3% / 70 1 None Not recommended pdf
Interpretation of results
Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 6.5.2355.316.0597 leads the challenge with 99%, tightly followed by the paid version of Online Armor Personal Firewall 2.1.0.131 with 98% and
the best free product – Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.22.349 with 95%
.
ProSecurity 1.43, which will be replaced by Real-time Defender in the future, is on the third place with 93%. Privatefirewall 6.0.19.29 scored 90%. All these products reached the Excellent protection level. Online Armor Personal Firewall 2.1.0.131 Free, Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.454, Netchina S3 2008 3.5.5.1, ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 8.0.020.000 and PC Tools Firewall Plus 4.0.0.45 are close to the excellent results.

Among the newly tested products, Privatefirewall 6.0.19.29, PC Tools Firewall Plus 4.0.0.40, Rising Personal Firewall 2008 20.59.10, BitDefender Internet Security 2009 12.0.10.2, McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008 9.1.108 and Ashampoo FireWall FREE 1.20 reached the best network performance results. The worst results were measured with G DATA InternetSecurity 2008 and Sunbelt Personal Firewall 4.6.1839.0.

It seems that Firewall Challenge tests make a big difference between really good products and the rest of the world. Most of the products are filtered in very low levels which means that they probably miss some critical features.

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