FirePanel XP 2.2

3.1 out of 5 stars 3.1 (27 votes)

(April 14, 2006)

Windows 2003/XP / Shareware; $10.00 / 6,973 downloads

FirePanel XP is an extension for the new firewall found in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. It improves your Windows Firewall with features not normally available to users. Set rules, monitor your firewall activity, filter packets, watch logs, and keep realtime tabs on what exactly your connection is being exposed to. Protect servers from most unsolicited internet traffic and malicious probes, by specifying which addresses can even find that open port. If the IP is not on the list, the packet is simply dropped and logged, limiting the surface of attack on your connection. There are multiples panes to display all important network information and the rules protecting your system.

  • Publisher

    Smokey

  • Homepage

    FirePanel XP

  • Limitations

    Yes - 30 day timeout

  • Latest Changes

    - Fixed Major Bug that caused application to crash

    - Speeded up GUI

    - Removed minimize bug

    - Added balloon tip to show where FirePanel XP sits in taskbar

    - Increased program stability

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  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    Looooooka

    Reviewing 1.6.0.0 (Jun 3, 2005)

    .NET guilty for slowness?
    get real man

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    czydg

    Reviewing 1.5.7.0 (Jan 14, 2005)

    Man, I haven't even finished downloading this program, but I just reckon anyone with smokey's sense of humour deserves 5 stars for bustin' his chops so hard.

  3. 2 out of 5 stars
    svschfer

    Reviewing 1.5.6.0 (Dec 20, 2004)

    This offers really no advantage over the native XP/2003 Firewall UI and viewing the log in Notepad (which evens gives more information and performs a 1000 times better). Looks like a overpriced implementation of some free sample code.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    smokey.

    Reviewing 1.5.2.0 (Nov 14, 2004)

    The gui is set to those colors so when youre staring into your logs at 3am you don't go blind.

    I busted my chops writing this app, so I rate myself a 5. =}

    Smokey

  5. 2 out of 5 stars
    PiotrZagawa

    Reviewing 1.5.1750 (Oct 18, 2004)

    Idea is great, but implementation hopeless.
    First, proggy uses .NET Framework, so loads and runs very long time, slows system startup (Celeron D, 2.53GHz, 512MB RAM). Tool like this should be written in native C++ or Delphi. Second, UI is poor, looking like Windows 3x. Third: too many bugs, framework exceptions all the time.

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