Did you choose your firewall according to Matousec ?

If you like Online Armor Free and works well for you then yes it's a good choice.

Nope. I start using my firewall application long before Matousec ever existed.

Been a lot of discussion on this already. I see it as yet-another-test. Do I trust it? A little. Do I depend on it? Absolutely not.

 

Your approach is almost the proper one

Q: Do you trust it ?
A: You can trust every result of every test. You can ignore the rating if you do not understand what this rating is about. In no way this rating reflects what firewall or HIPS system is the best, this only reflect ability of some products to intercept some tricky techniques intended to fool apllication-based security.

Q: What does mean a poor score at matousec ?
A: A poor score does reflect a poor selfdefence and HIPS functionality. It doesn't reflect how good antimalware or anivirus database of the product is.

This is all you need to know about matousec not to be misled by its results.

 

You are entitled to your opinion and I am entitle to mine. Lets just leave it a that.

 

How can you know after 9 tests?
Like Sunbelt - 5 failed, 4 passed - final score 5% / 84.
Why 84 They did only 9 tests.
Do they have a weakness in arithmetic?

Either all products have the equal conditions or the results will reflect a concertina more than anything else.

And why is this concertina test useful?
Well look at the "GET IT NOW!" links and you know why.
For me it looks just like a 'Pay per Lead' or 'Pay-per-Sale' site.

My money comes from the products which score highest at my independent tests.
Well, even independent tests can be adapted to fit and everything will be in the right order and all tests will be very accurate...

Cheers

 

There level up score system sucks... If you fail the first level but say you pass the other 8 (even tho he wont score them) you still are only graded and tested as far as the first. So if you fail his system at the first level your product is pretty much failed for the rest of the test.

Test serve a valuable purpose I don't mind them, but when you can take good tests and bad implementation people can be mislead. While the tests them self maybe sound and decent the way they are implemented is not.

 

in short - YES
After reading matousec report I have chosen Comodo Firewall, before that I have had ESS which scored miserably, plus my internet connection initialization took forever upon every restart.

 

ESS dose exactly what it says it will do its a firewall not a Hips program.

The sad part is the firewall could be lousy and yet still do awesome if it has hips that site is so misleading.

 

lol only took them a few years.