• Free Personal Firewall Software

    by  • July 29, 2009 • Firewalls, Free Tools

    ZoneAlarm
    Millions of users have selected ZoneAlarm as their trusted Internet security solution. The award-winning personal firewall automatically blocks dangerous Internet threats – known and unknown – guarding your PC from hackers and data thieves.

    Kerio Personal Firewall 4
    Kerio just released the latest version of their Personal Firewall™. Kerio Personal Firewall 4 is FREE for home or personal use and represents smart, easy-to-use personal security technology that fully protects personal computers against hackers and internal misuse.

    Omniquad Personal Firewall
    Omniquad Personal Firewall is freely available and contains the ability to monitor inbound and outbound traffic. It allows you to set up different levels of trusted zones and will ask for your authorization before allowing local software to initiate connections to the Internet.

    Outpost Firewall FREE
    Agnitum makes a scaled down version of their Outpost Firewall Pro 2.5 available for free for home or personal use. This product has an improved look and feel and will help to protect your computer against unwanted network traffic.

    Sygate Personal Firewall
    Sygate Personal Firewall 5.x provides best of breed security in a user friendly interface, protecting your PC from hackers, trojans and DoS attacks. New features include full-ICS support, protocol driver level protection, enhanced logging, and more. Sygate Personal Firewall is the first FREE personal firewall to offer protection from malicious code intrusions, keeping the information on your PC safe and private.

    About

    Tony has driven security policies and technologies for antivirus and incident response for Fortune 500 companies, and he has been network administrator and technical support for smaller companies. He has written for a variety of other Web sites and publications, including BizTech Magazine, PC World, SearchSecurity.com, WindowsNetworking.com, Smart Computing magazine, and Information Security magazine. Tony is a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional). He is Microsoft Certified as an MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) and MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) in Windows 2000 and an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) in Windows NT. Tony has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in Windows security since 2006. In addition to his Web site and magazine contributions, Tony was also tech editor of PCI Compliance (ISBN: 1597491659 ) and author of Essential Computer Security: Everyone’s Guide to E-mail, Internet, and Wireless Security (ISBN: 1597491144), coauthor of Hacker’s Challenge 3 (ISBN: 0072263040) and a contributing author to Winternals: Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide (ISBN: 1597490792), Combating Spyware in the Enterprise (ISBN: 1597490644) Syngress Force 2006 Emerging Threat Analysis: From Mischief to Malicious (ISBN: 1597490563), Botnets: The Killer Web Applications (ISBN: 1597491357), and AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise (ISBN: 1597491640).

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