 It was finally time for my beloved Sygate Personal Firewall to go.
As the pipes I have access to got fatter, Sygate’s CPU utilisation was getting unacceptable, up to 15% sometimes.
It was also getting long in the tooth (Symantec stopped development after taking over. Damn you Symantec!). Now that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but being a closed source application, the possibility of unpatched vulnerabilities is a concern.
And so, off on my quest. My criteria were simple.
- Cheap, free is even better
- Simple, as in “stop trying to do everything”
- Perhaps most importantly, effective
Unfortunately effectiveness can only be judged by reviews and tests as I have neither the means nor the desire to see for myself.
The popular candidate would be Kerio, but I do not like that it does web filtering, or that it nags you to register when the full version trial is over.
Happily, I decided to give Comodo Personal Firewall another go.
I have tried it before, maybe a year ago. Back then it had the obnoxious “Comodo LaunchPad”, and was bloody “chatty” with the warnings. Glad to see the LaunchPad is gone, and the sensitivity maybe tuned down somewhat.
Very nice, Comodo. Thanks.