New! Ashampoo Firewall

Hi Franklin,
I made an intallation, but the many changes/additions made by the firewall to the LSP caused Nod problems, Nod changed/corrected these for its own installation, but then the firewall popped up errors for installed filters.(so this firewall (from this first installation) is no good with Nod)
What AV do you have installed?

I will re-install later on a clean/new O.S. install.

I did have a quick look, I didn`t like how I suddenly got inbound attempt from reserved address, and the fact that the firewall as hard-coded rules (It says these are for the correct running of the system and windows activation,... but still do not like any hard-coded rules in any firewalls)

I will find time later to have a better "play"

 

Hi, folks: I just noticed that there is a d/l link at majorgeeks.com for a Freeware of said app( what a surprise or NOT?). This is a major deviation from what the wise guy from Ashampoo had said earlier at this thread(10 plus 30 option idea). Hope someone can emerge and clear this air up.

 

I have installed this again,.. I dont like how the firewall allows netBIOS/ win updates/ win time connections without user rules to allow,...... these must be some of the "Internal rules(hard coded)" that are allowed by default.

I did set the firewall to "block all", but netBIOS sessions continued, and connections where still attemped for windows time. (I didnt try win updates).

Edit:
I think it still needs more work (and no hard-coded rules)

 

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Thanks for the reply Stem.I have the latest Kav.

 

Kav can cause problems with firewalls at the best of times. But I installed first Ashampoo, then Kav,... internet connection was lost, removing all http scanning ports and then disabling http scanning in Kav enabled my browser to connect out, but was unable to update KAV. Creating rules for Kav within ashampoo did not help,.. on a re-boot, Ashampoo or Kav would not start (waited for 15 minutes), and no internet connections could be made.

So at the moment, it looks like Ashampoo is not compatible with Kav or Nod. The hard-coded rules within Ashampoo are leaving ports open, allowing outbound connections for windows applications, and the firewall is replying to scans.

 

Geez your good Stem and thanks again.

Don't think I will look at Ashampoo again.

I do have a hardware firewall and use Netveda to stop MS phoning home.

Even though Netveda is not rated highly it is very stable in running alongside Kav,resource usage is low and it works fine for me so I will stick with it for the time being.

Ah,just noticed Hurricanesoft personal firewall posted by Aigle.

Might have to check it out.LOL

 

How is the self protection of this firewall?

 

How do you mean? Internal kill, or from external (flooding etc)?
I can set up to see.

 

Tried to shut it down through taskmanager with losing the icon from the taskbar but couldn't shutdown the exe.

Not an expert here and really don't know how to test these things.

Edit:
oopsies are you asking about Netveda or Ashampoo.

 

Ashampoo,
One of the easiest programs to use to check for internal kill is APT

 

Got it,thanks.

 

Internal kill with APT

 

Will set up now to check.

 

Ashampoo.

NetVeda doesn't have it...

 

The firewall can be killed off easily, even with taskmanager. (It passed some with APT, but due to the firewall not running as a service)

 

OK, Thanks

I already aspected that...

From what I've been seeing, this firewall still needs a lot of work, but that is normal since it's new...

Do you know if supports ICS?

 

Have just set up, and working O.K. But,.. if I set the firewall to "block all" the client can still connect out

 

How they implemented the rules priority? Like Comodo PF? CHX?

 

The rule system is very basic, just giving rules for remote ports.

 

Looks like the firewall needs a lot of work. Will be interesting to see how it does when considering how advanced Comodo is becoming and how advanced Outpost already is.

 

Very, very basic

Thanks

 

Review information of Ashampoo Firewall on Softpedia

http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Ashampoo-Firewall-Review-33853.shtml

 

Remember that this is a review from a none expert!

Almost the GUI was reviewed...

 

Not too sure if its been mentioned but ashampoo are giving away free licenses for their firewall for the next few days. Have fun!

http://www.ashampoo-root03.com/webcache/html/1/product_2_0050_.htm