any good open source firewalls

are there any good open source firewall for windows xp?

 

wipfw is quite nice, but not for everyone if you catch my drift

coreforce, while not open source, is under the apache license so technically you could decompile it legally and look at the source

that's about it for working and good open source windows firewalls.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

 

Isafer ...

 

yeah, but that runs in the winsock layers (aka filters packets way too late after they could have already done something) So it is really not a good choice.

Alphalutra1

 

are there any good open source ones for windows that are easy to use?

 

No real "newb" friendly ones. But why are you so hung up on open source? Are you actually going to look at the source and use it, or are you going to check it to see if anything maliciuos is inside it, most likely not.

For windows, the best you will get are free firewalls, without source code released. I like Jetico 1 a lot, but that isn't very easy. Some people have liked Comodo, so you may want to try that. If you don't need application filtering, then just use the built-in XP firewall, it does its job at inbound filtering.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1