Privatefirewall 7.0

4.4 out of 5 stars 4.4 (21 votes)

(October 13, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 1,052 downloads

Privatefirewall is a personal firewall and intrusion detection application that eliminates unauthorized access to your PC. It also constantly monitors the sensitive areas of a PC where intrusion can occur and reports on their status allowing users to take appropriate action. It is easy to install/use and provides reliable and high-performance protection right "out of the box". Its intuitive interfaces allow advanced users to easily adjust default settings to create custom configurations.

FREE for personal and commercial use.

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  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    CyberDoc999

    Reviewing 7.0 (Oct 15, 2009)

    Firewall Works great......
    and it is free !
    the HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System)
    is Lame.....
    I tested it on 5 differents programs and it blocked none of them....
    HIPS that worked would make this a killer app

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    stylemessiah

    Reviewing 3.1 (Jul 31, 2009)

    According to the home page its completely free and is version 6 now....

    And it now supports windows 7 x32 & 64

    yet to test

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    asaenz

    Reviewing 5.0.14.2 (Mar 1, 2008)

    I liked privatefirewall and the way it works but I don't like it's useage of memory. It starts out at about 25,000K and grows gradually from there. I'd hate to be gone for a few days and find my computer frozen from lack of memory. I can't stay around all the time monitoring the usage of memory. If they can address this problem they'll have an excellent product in my book. I was ready to pay for it but I can't accept the memory problem (zonealarm has a similar problem). A few other firewalls stay at around 20,000K and some others seem to "flush out" whatever is not needed when you show the main screen and then reduce them to the tray. The only way to do that with this product is shutdown the firewall and then reinitiate it. As a firewall it seems to work great.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    bellgamin

    Reviewing 5.0.14.2 (Jul 7, 2007)

    Private Firewall (PFW) is a highly ranked firewall, based on actual tests HERE, and HERE.

    Better yet, PFW's built-in "Dynamic Security Agent" is a truly excellent HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System). DSA features the following layers of defense technology:

    - Application Monitor/Manager
    - Registry Monitor
    - Process Monitor/Manager
    - Email Anomaly Analyzer/Manager
    - System Anomaly Analyzer

    DSA also detects malware and intrusions based on behaviors characteristic of unauthorized system use. Some of these include:

    - Attempts to access a protected registry area
    - Attempts to access a protected object
    - Attempts to Initiate a foreign process
    - Attempts to control Windows service
    - Attempts to create a DNS request
    - Attempts to initiate outgoing TCP traffic

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