It is a 5 for its protection and information. However, newbies may not understand the pop-ups (like most good hips programs), and geeks may not like its lack of configurability. But throw any online leak or malware test at it, and it will respond instantaneously. Fairly low on memory for its protection(about 15mb) and excellent outbound protection. If you are running a hardware firewall andor windows firewall, you should try this. Con; alot of pop-ups in the beginning