Outpost Personal Firewall

[Fuelm@n]

Anyone familiar with this Firewall?

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/

[Vernon Frazee]

Try the following. It will give you a list of all the messages containing the word "outlook".

1. Click the "search" button at the top of the page.
2. Type in "outpost" (minus the quotes) in the "Search By Keyword" box.
3. Click the "Perform Search" button.

[fink]

I've been using it for a couple of years or so and am very pleased with it. It has a relatively small memory footprint, never causes problems, stealths all my ports, was pretty easy to set up (quite intuitive) and has never crashed, frozen or caused any other program to do so either.

The ad blocking works and so does the popup stopper although I also use proxomitron to aid in that specific endevour. The DNS caching has been handy once or twice when my ISP's DNS servers went down (just last week in fact). You can also allow the setup wizard to create rules automaticaly and they've been well thought out to ease setting it up although for the most part I prefer to do it manually because it gives me a better feel for how the firewall sets rules up.

It has settings to run silently and not drive you crazy warning you about every little port scan or hit on your computer.

It was designed to be similar to and competitive with (and then ultimately better than) Atguard firewall which, in my opinion, was the best there was at one time until they sold it to Norton (now NIS) and stopped development.

They also have really good forums for problems and even have a forum for plugin developers... which is one of the unique features of the firewall. Once you own it you can add plugins that you, Agnitum or another user has designed.

[Platypus]

My experience echoes that of fink.

I tried Outpost when Zone Alarm Free went to Ver3 and became very resource hungry. I've been very pleased with Outpost.

[ecross]

With Outpost Firewall, can you tell it which websites you don't want users to visit such as porno sites? I'm using version 1.0.1817.

[fink]

Yes, with this plugin..

http://www.outpostfirewall.com/forum...?threadid=3394

I've never used it but it's been around for a year and was developed by one of the admins/beta testers at agnitum so it's probably ok.

[Fuelm@n]

Thanks everyone for the replies, I may go to using it. I've used ZA for about 4 years and had some issues with it in the past. Thanks again!

[ecross]

Hey thanks fink!

I just downloaded the plug-in on my Windows 2000 machine and it works like a dream.

[fink]

Glad to hear it.