Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6.2808

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Publisher's description of Sygate Personal Firewall

From Sygate Technologies: Sygate Personal Firewall 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 a personal firewall to offer protection from malicious code intrusions, keeping the information on your PC safe and private.

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Editor's review of Sygate Personal Firewall

This easy-to-use firewall presents itself as a quality option for those seeking protection from the Net nasties. We like Sygate Personal Firewall's handy and clear interface, which lets you quickly disable the firewall and access dialog windows via the system-tray icon.

This application is a good bet for beginners because it's not necessary to configure any settings to get started. When the utility detects a program trying to connect to the Web for the first time, it asks you whether to allow or disallow access and remembers the setting. Advanced users can set permissions manually for any group of applications, such as a range of trusted IPs and protocols. Unfortunately, the current version isn't Vista compatible if you're looking for an alternative to the Windows Firewall.

The app didn't slow down our computer and less than 10 MB of RAM. Password protection guards against other users, such as children or employees, changing settings or turning off the firewall. Whether you're new to firewalls or have used them before, this free option should be on your shortlist.

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  Sygate Personal Firewall

  Worth Trying But Not Worth Buying

  by: Reborn master on 18-Apr-2007 07:07:19 PM

  Pros: Sygate provides inbound and outbound.Offers advanced program controls.

  Cons: Sygate firewall is very complex and hard to use especially for beginners.Interface doesn't look good and it's hard to configure.It alerts every time whenever I open a program and doesn't provide much details about it.Couldn't block some leak test techniques.So don't waste your money on this hard to use firewall instead get Zonealarm free or Comodo firewall because they are free and easy to use.

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  Sygate Personal Firewall

  Terrific Firewall

  by: Mike98 on 29-Jul-2007 07:07:53 AM

  Pros: Easy to install, configurate and if necessary easy to uninstall without rests. Doesn't lose internet connection. After I installed this version, which is total free, I did the ShieldsUP! test from the Gibson Research Corporation website and found that all tested ports are stealthy, like it must be with a good firewall. Sygate Personal Firewall remembers settings, so it will not give more pop-ups than necessary. Conclusion: Sygate Personal Firewall is the best choice, because it also controls outgoing traffic, while Windows XPSP2 Firewall leaks.

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  Sygate Personal Firewall

  Solid protection but to expensive.

  by: Chainmail2006 on 09-Aug-2007 05:25:09 PM

  Pros: This firewall works like all software firewalls should. It has a nice GUI and passed every test I found to throw at it. It's easy to use and remembers your settings. If you still use "XP" and are willing to shell out $40 bucks for an application of this type then go for it. It is a very good software firewall.

  Cons: I have a few issues with it though. First, the price. For $30 dollars more you can get "Kaspersky Internet Security 7". For about twice the cost of this firewall you can buy an encrypted router with a hardware firewall and never have to invest in this type application again. For an "XP" system theres "Comodo firewall Pro". It's free, and just as good as this one. Lastly, I haven't yet been able to locate a "Vista" compatible version and "Vista" is all I use now. I do have a hard drive with "XP" on it that I use on occasion for testing "XP" software. but can't understand why some companies haven't come out with versions compatible with both operating systems.

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  Sygate Personal Firewall

  SOLID PROTECTION .

  by: justletme on 30-Dec-2007 02:05:44 PM

  Pros: It seems to be doing a good job so far. Like other firewalls such as zonelarm it gives several pop-ups letting you know what it's doing or asking permission to open a program .

  Cons: Nothing I can really think of other than it's not free .

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  Sygate Personal Firewall

  SIMPLE AND SUPER SECURE!

  by: survivor347 on 06-Jul-2007 07:28:27 AM

  Pros: Simple

  NO BUGS!

  Hardly any yaps!

  takes tiny ram.. (really tiny..computer runs fast)

  really does protect.

  ONLY 40 DOLLARS FOR A LIFE TIME..

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  there are more but I want you to experience it yourself.. download it now

  Cons: looks like a ram booster of Windows 95...Still workssss!

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