outpost firewall pro 7 vs 8 , which is the best bet?

Hi

about Outpost Firewall Pro , is better the last v7 version or the new v8 ?

i mean outpost it's famous to release lots' of updates to fix bugs

i was an outpost user since 2.5


i tried both , seems v8 looks more light in ram and cpu consume

but i'm worried with v8 to update the program every 2 weeks

do you think it's better to install the lavst v7 or go with the more light v8?

i would appreciate it a lot!

thanks

 

I've been using V8 since it was released, and it's running light and fast. So was V7.

 

i found v8 more light and fast (in ram and cpu consume) then v7

did you notice that?


acs.exe is around 17mb
op_mon.exe around 16-17mb
thanks

 

It seems so.

 

I never ran version 7, but version 8 doesn't seem to slow things down for me. The total I/O of acs.exe averages around 400kB/s - 900kB/s which is higher than my prior firewall. It's the largest background application on my system in terms of I/O (used to be TrueCrypt at ~25kB/s). I would be more concerned with the impact that total I/O will have on your system over the RAM consumption.

 

which was your prior firewall ?

thanks

 

Look 'n' Stop combined with Malware Defender. I'm sure Malware Defender added some I/O too, but it blocks Process Hacker/Process Explorer from even seeing what it is. I think you'll be happy with Outpost 8 - it's a very nice firewall.

 

hi
thanks!
look and stop is really very light
don't like outpost 8 install visual c++ (i can't remember the version) because i'm really full of visual c++ , it's really unpleasant!

i don't know if you are new to outpost , it was one of the best firewall but prettily, handsomely Buggy

i had lots of issue with outpost
so i think outpost 8 will be really stable in the future release , and i don't like to upgrade at every release
v7 i think it's rock solid , maybe more ugly but well tested

 

You're right about it being buggy, I had issues with it too, but I finally figured out how to make it run well.

v8 isn't that bad, it just needs to be tweaked a certain way, in order for everything to work smoothly.

At this point in time, I have it set up exactly the way I want it.

 

hi
v8 is new , so i 'm sure many update will be avaible soon
but i did not find many different between the last v7 release and v8 outside the gui

about

may i know what settings should i use to tweak and to let it work smoothly?
i would appreciate it
thanks

 

about the I/O is the log
i can't disalbe it
but in v7.5 if you disable the log the i/o is very very low

 

I hope you get a reply from Agnitum regarding that in their forum. It seems awfully quiet there. It would be nice to be able to disable it if you wanted to, especially if the I/O impact is that great. Would you recommend 7.5 over 8?

 

i think 7.5 is more stable bug free
v8 is in evolution , so i think they will find many bugs to have a real stabe firewall as always with security programs

cheers

 

Well i am not sure as to what you mean by you cant disable the logs.

but in my config i have unchecked enable logging and that works fine.

 

me too
but if you go in tools ->event viewer you will see outpost still logs

 

those are basic logs of products internal events,should not be more than a few kilobytes at most.

clear all those logs manually and recheck, the packet log is the most heavily logged and its empty for me.