Privatefirewall 5 released

Happened to see this at MajorGeeks. This is a very light firewall that did fairly well with leaktests while it was in beta. I'd try it, but I'm currently content with my setup. So...someone try it and post back!

 

Hi QBgreen,
I did try this firewall sometime back (cant remember which version). Have installed to have a play.

It is running O.K., currently taking 20,500k, No slowdowns.
I would of liked to see the ability to place IP`s within rules (for such rules as connection to DNS servers etc)

Attached pic: Application rules,...

 

Process Monitor rules:....

 

Seems to have a real HIPS like function as well- looks nice.

 

And do we have the link to it ?

 

http://www.privacyware.com/personal_firewall_2.html

 

how good is it?

 

I didn`t have time to check,... I will have a play later this afternoon.

 

Thanks for taking the plunge, Stem! Nice to have so many alternatives. Keeps folks on their toes.

 

PCflankleaktest (windows comms) http://www.pcflank.com/pcflankleaktest.htm

This firewall just passed this test:

Will play more later (have to go out now)

 

nice.

 

Watching with great interest. In the market for a new FW soon

 

Well,.. its holding up well to the "leaktests", I have run 10 (2 failed to execute?), actually only failed on one at this time, which was "yalta" with comms over localhost(127.0.0.1), there seems no way to block this (that I have found yet).

Will find more time later to finish the leaktests.

 

This firewall seems to have all the features I want, and it's running smoothly! Anyone know if you renew the license after a year or pay a one time fee?

 

After trying it for a while, I found the prompting process a bit awkward. And it didn't alert on anything with the Yalta leak test. I'll stay with Outpost for now.

 

well outpost asks too many questions since 3.5 and in my experience outpost 4 isn't relaxing either...
i would say comodo for now.

 

The prompts/warnings could be made better (and made more understandable for new users)

It would still alert on the execution of the program,... but,... you would of had to take the firewall out of training mode first (you would need to do this before running any leaktests), or all executions would be allowed.

See pic,.. you would need to "untick" training mode

 

Did it pass the leaktests without being tweaked or did it need some work to get it to pass ?

 

According pic, detection is signature based ( how to understand "Leaktest developed by PCFlank.com 1.0" )?

 

This was picked up by "process monitor->Send Windows messages" The name is taken from the "properties" of the file in question

 

Just the need to disable "learning mode", after this all executions of files (create process etc) are intercepted and asked for. The "process monitor" for the executed application defaults to "ask".

 

I thought I would give Private Firewall a spin as it looked promising.

I was a bit dissapointed as it came up with a lot of pop ups which I answered but never noticed my email (Pocomail) nor did it list it in applications. Also when I set IE to be blocked in applications and monitor I could still browse with it with no prompts.

I tried the PC Flank test and DNS tester both of which it stopped, but I do wonder if these are hard wired into the system or they are legitimately blocking the exploit.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I am running Win 2k sp4 and had PG disabled.

 

Hi David,

I did not see this,.. but from:-

I will setup to see.

This may cause conflict,.. as did SSM (even when disabled), I had to uninstall SSM due to conflict with system hooks (and firewall monitor then worked well). Is this free/full PG?

 

Full PG.

Even if PG is interfering I am not happy to run the system without it, so the comments remain unless it is specific to me or I am at fault

 

Hi David,

I fully understand,.. I am in no way attempting to make you uninstall PG,.. I was just informing of the possible conflict.

Your comments (as all others) are welcome and needed for a forum to find how a firewall is on systems , the wider the checks/tests/installations a firewall is made, then the better understanding of the firewall is made, and in the end,.. better for all.

I, myself, installed this firewall due to post made, so, from this, its a case of "lets check it out".