sukarof
May 4th, 2008, 01:01 PM
I was looking for a firewall with more or less automatic rule creations for known apps. Since OA doesnt work for Vista yet i decide to try Rising PF in Vista.
I have thrown a couple of leaktests at it and it catches them. I cant try them all since it seems like some leaktests doesnt work in Vista, I got a couple of BSOD´s.
First impression is that Rising PF is non intrusive, except the initial training of some .dll´s and software that isnt recognized by the firewall, and nonintrusivness is what I am looking for. (You can turn of that if you want.) It catches all the connections I try to start.
The automatic rule creations for benign processes seems to work as easy as in OA for example.
The navigation inside the settings is fairly easy to understand.
But it has this really, I mean really, annoying nag windows that appears everytime you access the gui. Drove me crazy but fortunally the nagwindow is its own process so I can prevent it from starting through a process explorer software I have. I hate vendors that has theese nag windows when they offer a trial.
What is the point really? I want to test the damn software for the trial period (31 days) and if I like it I will buy it, I wont buy anything through a nag window. So if anyone from rising is reading this - get rid of it!
Well, now when that is out of my chest:
Anyone have any experiences with it? Heard of any serious flaws?
I have thrown a couple of leaktests at it and it catches them. I cant try them all since it seems like some leaktests doesnt work in Vista, I got a couple of BSOD´s.
First impression is that Rising PF is non intrusive, except the initial training of some .dll´s and software that isnt recognized by the firewall, and nonintrusivness is what I am looking for. (You can turn of that if you want.) It catches all the connections I try to start.
The automatic rule creations for benign processes seems to work as easy as in OA for example.
The navigation inside the settings is fairly easy to understand.
But it has this really, I mean really, annoying nag windows that appears everytime you access the gui. Drove me crazy but fortunally the nagwindow is its own process so I can prevent it from starting through a process explorer software I have. I hate vendors that has theese nag windows when they offer a trial.
What is the point really? I want to test the damn software for the trial period (31 days) and if I like it I will buy it, I wont buy anything through a nag window. So if anyone from rising is reading this - get rid of it!
Well, now when that is out of my chest:
Anyone have any experiences with it? Heard of any serious flaws?