Anyone use R-Firewall?

[Zo]

Anyone have experience with this firewall? Would appreciate any
helpful input.

http://www.r-firewall.com/


R-Firewall


R-TT offers you a new system tool to extend security services on your
computer.

R-Firewall is a FREE program comparable with commercial firewalls!

R-Firewall is an effective and easy-to-use solution to secure your
on-line activity. It protects a computer connected to a local network
and/or to the Internet against any intrusions, attacks, trojans,
spyware, and other external and internal threats. R-Firewall also
filters out inappropriate Internet pages content and blocks dangerous
active components you may get while browsing over the Internet or
receiving e-mail massages.

Automatic configuration during setup allows you securely surf the
Internet right after the software installation. Mobile users can create
multiple and easily switchable configurations for specific network
environments (Internet surfing at home, office local networks, or
public Wi-Fi spots).

 

[Ben]

Anyone have experience with this firewall? Would appreciate any
helpful input.

http://www.r-firewall.com/

I used it for a couple of weeks when I was testing a bunch of freeware
firewalls. It was a very nice little firewall, but there are a few
quirks -

1) Seemed to randomly lose its entire ruleset for no reason. OK if you
only have a few apps or standard rules but I like to tune mine, so this
got annoying, fast.
2) Installs a CRC service to ensure no apps get secretly switched, but
you don't seem to be able to disable the prompting by it or this part of
the software. Again, annoying.

No updates to it since March 2005, but I'm guessing that the ruleset
loss is a bug that could do with fixing...

HTH

Ben

 

[Zo]

says...

I used it for a couple of weeks when I was testing a bunch of freeware
firewalls. It was a very nice little firewall, but there are a few
quirks -

1) Seemed to randomly lose its entire ruleset for no reason. OK if you
only have a few apps or standard rules but I like to tune mine, so this
got annoying, fast.
2) Installs a CRC service to ensure no apps get secretly switched, but
you don't seem to be able to disable the prompting by it or this part of
the software. Again, annoying.

No updates to it since March 2005, but I'm guessing that the ruleset
loss is a bug that could do with fixing...

HTH

Ben

Thanks for the input Ben.

 

[Kerodo]

Anyone have experience with this firewall? Would appreciate any
helpful input.

http://www.r-firewall.com/


R-Firewall


R-TT offers you a new system tool to extend security services on your
computer.

R-Firewall is a FREE program comparable with commercial firewalls!

R-Firewall is an effective and easy-to-use solution to secure your
on-line activity. It protects a computer connected to a local network
and/or to the Internet against any intrusions, attacks, trojans,
spyware, and other external and internal threats. R-Firewall also
filters out inappropriate Internet pages content and blocks dangerous
active components you may get while browsing over the Internet or
receiving e-mail massages.

Automatic configuration during setup allows you securely surf the
Internet right after the software installation. Mobile users can create
multiple and easily switchable configurations for specific network
environments (Internet surfing at home, office local networks, or
public Wi-Fi spots).

I tried it also for a few days, found a few random bugs which I can't
remember now (it was sometime last year that I used it). One bug was
rather annoying, it would give you an alert on an app trying to connect
out, but it showed you the wrong info, i.e. it was the info from the
previous app that I had just allowed or denied, etc. Rather weird. All
in all, it seemed to have some promise, but needed further development
to be more reliable. So I'd recommend avoiding it at the moment..
there are many other freeware firewalls available.

 

[Zo]

I tried it also for a few days, found a few random bugs which I can't

remember now (it was sometime last year that I used it). One bug was
rather annoying, it would give you an alert on an app trying to connect
out, but it showed you the wrong info, i.e. it was the info from the
previous app that I had just allowed or denied, etc. Rather weird. All
in all, it seemed to have some promise, but needed further development
to be more reliable. So I'd recommend avoiding it at the moment..
there are many other freeware firewalls available.

Thanks for the info.

 

[badgolferman]

Anyone have experience with this firewall? Would appreciate any
helpful input.

http://www.r-firewall.com/


R-Firewall


R-TT offers you a new system tool to extend security services on your
computer.

R-Firewall is a FREE program comparable with commercial firewalls!

R-Firewall is an effective and easy-to-use solution to secure your
on-line activity. It protects a computer connected to a local network
and/or to the Internet against any intrusions, attacks, trojans,
spyware, and other external and internal threats. R-Firewall also
filters out inappropriate Internet pages content and blocks dangerous
active components you may get while browsing over the Internet or
receiving e-mail massages.

Automatic configuration during setup allows you securely surf the
Internet right after the software installation. Mobile users can
create multiple and easily switchable configurations for specific
network environments (Internet surfing at home, office local
networks, or public Wi-Fi spots).

I tried it since yesterday and one of its modules (ftpfilet.dll) caused
a blue screen error on my WXP SP2 machine. I uninstalled it and am
depending on the corporate firewall for now.