Sunbelt Personal Firewall

I see this is a 30 day trial for free but I am unsure what occurs after the 30 days, does it stop working?

 

Yeah once it runs out after 30 days it converts to free version. Check out the bottom of the page for free vs paid. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/home-home-office/sunbelt-personal-firewall/

 

This is good to know Thanks

 

You're welcome.

 

Most of the basic firewall features are still there after the 30 days. I used to run the free version and frankly didn't care about the extra features in the paid version. Free was fine....

 

From the Sunbelt firewall v4.6.1861.0 user manual:

Those features make the firewall behave like the Kerio 2.1.5, but add several nice features to GUI, such as IP groups.

 

Does it pop-up a nag screen every now and then after 30 days?

 

After 30 days of unlimited use,
Pops up a little alert window as you boot the computer.
Pops up the same little window if you click on the main menu items that no longer work.

 

It's also 32 bit only, no x64.....

 

I m wondering if Sunbelt knows it has a firewall for sale and i m also wondering if they are aware of the fact that Windows 7 has arrived for almost one year
This firewall is good ,but without updates , lack of 64 bit support and with those little strange bugs regarding network atacks in the NIPS section i dont think anybody will buy it.
Too bad because it really filters network packets very well compared to some others.
This firewall looks very outdated to me.
Would be interesting to know about the HIPS component ,regarding matousec tests ,the actual capabilities.

 

Sm3K3R,

We do not have any plans to make SPF 64 bit or Windows 7 compatible. We will release one more software update for this in the near future which will be its last update.

We have instead released VIPRE Premium which includes a newer version of this firewall which is Windows 7 and 64 bit compatible. At the moment you have to run it alongside our VIPRE Anti-virus but in a future update there will be a firewall-only mode which disables all Anti-virus parts and unloads the drivers related to the anti-virus if you would prefer to run the firewall alongside another anti-virus. I believe we'll also eventually be including options in the installer to allow you to choose to install just the firewall, anti-virus, or both.

 

Great news.

 

so that means no windows 7 support for 32bit?

 

hope that is going to happen soon
Originally Posted by NickHSunbelt
I believe we'll also eventually be including options in the installer to allow you to choose to install just the firewall, anti-virus, or both.

 

This is sad news. The Kerio firewall was among the best out there and now Sunbelt is finally killing it.
Too bad Sunbelt, Too Bad.

 

They never did put much effort into it anyway, all the work was done by Kerio. When they bought it, they tweaked a few things and then just marketed it as much as they could to make sales. Hardly anything was done to fix or change it.

 

Actually, they did change.
Added unnecessary features which can't be uninstalled (can be disabled) and improved, slightly, the interface and log presentation.

I wouldn't bash them too hard. It's about the only game in town still resembling Kerio in its easy to use, 'all packet rules in one place' presentation, plus IP groups.

 

I wasn't intending to bash them, just point out that not much work was done after they bought it, which to me doesn't say much for them....

If I were running XP 32 bit, then yes, I'd consider using it. It's still a decent firewall. Just let the 30 day features expire and use the free version...

 

FWIW, I've been running Kerio Personal Firewall v. 4.2 (free version) on Win XP 32 bit machines for quite some time........fairly light on resources, and lacks a lot of the xtra stuff added in later iterations. Does what I want it to, but I'm also behind a NAT hardware firewall.

ernie

 

I'm a noob in computers. My question is somewhat related to topic, so I haven't opened another one. Why to use a different firewall. The windows firewall isn't ok?

 

The Windows firewall is OK but not more IMO