Safety.Net

[Frank Bohan]

Has anyone used this program

<quote> Safety.Net 3.61 offers Internet security, content security and
advanced Internet firewall protection for all your LAN computers, and trust
controls to block unwanted or harmful applications from accessing the
network. You can define granular user or computer specific access controls
based on site, content, PICS ratings and time of day. You can monitor
connection level network activity round-the-clock and view detailed reports
to analyze traffic and usage patterns. </quote>

<quote> Safety.Net is free for personal and not-for-profit charitable entity
use (excluding governmental entities, educational institutions and
libraries). </quote>

http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
http://www.netveda.com/downloads/

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Frank Bohan
¶ Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats.

 

[Craig]

Has anyone used this program

<quote> Safety.Net 3.61 offers Internet security

http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
http://www.netveda.com/downloads/

Frank;

I don't use it but have been looking at it as the ZA replacement. Below
are a couple of articles which /briefly/ mention safety.net.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3000_7-6257450.html
http://www.informationweek.com/LP/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173402915&pgno=4

Also, you may want to check out their forums. It has moderate-to-light
traffic and not much input (apparently) from company reps. It seems
that most of the exchanges on the board are among users, often
w/considerable time-lags.

Notably, v3.61 is still the current rev, released 11 months prior.

All in all, people seem to be happy w/the product (passing probe tests,
etc) but company doesn't seem very responsive & doc seems sparse.

-Craig

p.s. netveda's forum activity made me curious about comodo's. Comodo's
seems to be newer (less time up) but obviously has better company rep
response. At the end of one thread, I found this precious quote:

"Never mind...I bought a router instead."

 

[David]

Has anyone used this program

Repost of my initial report.

I tried Safety.Net for several weeks but do not feel I can recommend
it for the following reasons.

1. Safety.Net has not had any updates for some considerable time.

2. Slow Response times. I installed Spyware Blaster. I then told SB to
go online and download any updates. Sixty seconds later, well after SB
had finished its download, Safety.net popped up a window stating that
it had blocked access for the program. Too little too late.

3. I have a firewall in my ADSL modem which prevents any unrequested
access from outside so I cannot check just how effective the
Safety.Net firewall is in that situation however Safety.Net repeatedly
failed GRC's LeakTest until it finally caught on that LeakTest was
actually trying to access the outside world and plonked a block on it.
Once the block was actually in place it did deny LeakTest access.

4. The program seems to ignore any changes made to its rules unless
you perform both an "apply" and a "refresh". Changes made will often
not last through a reboot. The instructions say to stop and restart
the Firewall to initiate certain changes. This does not seem to work
with any consistency and often just serves to abandon any rule changes
made.

5. There is no easy way to block all internet access. You either have
to activate the control program, which is rather slow to appear, and
then click on the "Block" button or you have to activate password
protection, once only, then, each reboot, right click on the tray
icon and type the password before you are allowed to right click and
"Block". All other firewalls. which I have tested, allow blocking by a
simple point and click or hot key activation to make the process as
quick as possible.

6. I advised Net-Veda of some of my concerns via their contact e-mail
address. I have not yet been afforded the courtesy of _any_ reply.

Note: I still have not received a reply. It seems to be abandonware.