Looking for pure firewall

Hi all,

can anyone point me to a free firewall without HIPS for windows XP SP3?

 

im not sure about free, but the best pure FW ive tried is Look 'n' Stop.

 

Try the Sunbelt Firewall.

 

I think Ashampoo has a free firewall without HIPS.

 

zonealarm free firewall

 

GhostWall

 

the best free and the lighter is PCtools FW , just disable "enhance security" and u got it

 

Can that possibly be lighter than GhostWall? Don't think so.

 

Kerio 2.1.5 is a good solution for a simple firewall.

 

Rising Firewall Free also good, light & without HIPS.

 

Thanks to all for the suggestions. I have started out trying PC Tools FW. I had thought to try an older version of ZA free, but couldn't remember which version I last had that worked so well for me. I believe it was back in 05 or 06.

 

I use ZoneAlarm version 6.1.744.001 on XP SP2 and it works well for me.

 

I use PC Tools FWP 3.14 with code injection been stable..

 

Comodo Firewall
Just change setting: Disable Defense + Security
And you got pure firewall

 

There are quite a few old versions of Zone Alarm available at OldVersion.

For a pure, lightweight rule based firewall, it's hard to find better than Kerio 2.1.5.

 

Windows firewall, Sygate, Kerio 2.1.5.
Personally, I'm using mostly 1 and 2 when relevant and applicable.
Mrk

 

For the firewall purists, I have seen some recommend the SoftPerfect product.

http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

 

Windows FW. None of that HIPS / outbound rubbish. Just pure, light inbound traffic filtering.

 

Best free pure firewall: Sygate or Kerio 2.1.5

And if you're willing to pay, LooknStop is fantastic.

 

It's a good and simple solution

 

paid / Look'n'Stop excellent firewall.
Free / Kerio 2.15 ran it breifly but from what I can tell...not bad.

 

Pure firewall, being defined as filtering inbound and outbound ports, and deny/allow based on address/port/mac, SoftPerfect does this, and only this. No injection monitoring, no application monitoring. So, it could be defined as pure I suppose.

Windows Firewall, for inbound pure too I suppose. I use it mostly.

You might also consider ipsec as a pure firewall. Not easy to use, but can do same thing in regards to allow/restrict based on ports or ip.

Sul.

 

Depends what your doing on your PC? Most people are okay with their Router 3 hardware firewalls. Some still use the hardware and software types. Like most here use some sort of sandbox types. Still just a plain fast one would be Firewall Plus 3.14. I have it hosted on my site see the Firewall Plus 3.14 posting in this thread. That's good with P2P if you do that, otherwise that's it..