Kerio Personal Firewall

I like this product. It has a nice interface, is easy to use, detects a variety ofincoming and outgoing suspicious events. You can Permit or Deny one time, or tell it to make arule to permit or deny always. It has separate permission for "access the internet" and for "start another program". It is a direct descendent of Tiny Person Firewall, which was well-regarded. I think it's just as good as ZoneAlarm.

Well, as a hacker just installed a FTP on my nice WINXP workstation and just wanted to gain Admin rights, i thought it might be time to get a firewall :D. I used Zone Alarm some month before the even but it looks to childish and takes a lot of resources.

However:
KPF is splitted into 2 parts
1. the Firewall
and
2. The Firewall Admin
Together they take about 9MB Ram.
The firewall blocked all access from the hacker who scanned me a second time (lol).
The learnbydoing feeling of the firewall. (you open a new programm and the firewall asks if the programm can access the internet) makes the Firewall really easy to use.

Im sure by defining some rules a better way i could even increase the security but as far as i am concerned.

IT WORKS :)

I like Kerio because it "learns" and for more familiar users, you can create "rules". I ran it for a while, learned how it works, and the set up the rules.

I have two browsers (Opera and MSIE5) and I've set it up so that only these two programs can access the internet (other than the start-up programs such as DNS). After setting it up, I asked KPF not to warn me about port scans. Went to Shields Up to check on KPF activity, and I'm done.

It works perfectly, it's fast, it's free and I'm more than happy!