ok I wanted to test it since so many people think it is wonderful
So I put it on my test computer running xp pro spk 2, with AVG 8.0 with
antispyware to see how it did. it works fine along side avg 8.0
This is a 40gig hd, pentium 4 1.6ghz, 512mgs of ram
First 3.0 is more technical and a bit hard to understand unless you know
about configuring a firewall to begin with.
I would not recommend it to average or beginner user, unless someone else
congfigured it for them.
I am told their version 2 is easier to understand but why would you install
an older version anyway?
There are usually improvements in the newer version
I installed it with the defense+ because i had not a clue what it was and
they recommended to install it
It is a great tool but it slows down some computers and did mine, so i went
into the program and disabled it by unchecking the function. Found the
computer to load and work faster after this.
Understand mine is an older computer, I do not know if it would work faster
on a pentium D or pentium dual core
It sometimes takes a bit to get it to "remember" programs but basically they
all do this.
It also takes a bit to get it to work with a network but you really need to
know about networking, ip addresses and a firewall in general to get this to
work.
Took me about a half hour to finally get it to see my network and I am quite
good at networking.
The pro version is completly free and it is a full pro version of a firewall
program
I am using AVG 8.0 +firewall now on another computerand it is definetely a
full version program but then again it is much harder to figure out than
AVG's firewall is and of course windows xp firewall.
If you are using Vista's firewall that I feel is more than enough because it
does monitor the in's and outs'
If you are on xp and are basically only using the computer to surf and check
email you really only need xp firewall too.
If you are doing programs like Quicken, Turbo Tax or using Word or Excel
files with important info on them then you need a third party firewall to
monitor the "outs". All of them do monitor the "ins" but 3rd party ones do
the "outs and the "ins" and can give you more info.
I also read somewhere it has a problem with Vista and sp1 but i believe if
you go to their website and their forum there is a patch for this.
My suggestion is to back up your files and try it out and see for yourself.
Just remember if you are running another firewall you will need to uninstall
it first before putting this on.
robin
