we want valid keys :)

Need *ey, somebody please!

And here it is all the test and the results of the last lick test!

Firewalls' ratings

The table below sorts the tested firewalls by their final score. This table also shows the exact version of every tested product.

Product Product Score Level of Anti-leak Protection
Comodo Icon Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4.16.174FREE 9475 Excellent
Jetico v2 Icon Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.28 beta 9375 Excellent
ZoneAlarm Pro Icon ZoneAlarm Pro 7.0.337.000 8600 Very good
SSM Icon System Safety Monitor 2.4.0.617 beta 7975 Very good
Kaspersky Icon Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0.2.614 7950 Very good
Jetico v1 Icon Jetico Personal Firewall 1.0.1.61 FreewareFREE 7750 Very good
Privatefirewall Icon Privatefirewall 5.0.8.11 7625 Very good
GSS Icon Ghost Security Suite [BETA] 1.110 7500 Very good
PC-cillin Icon Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 15.00.1329 7500 Very good
DSA Icon Dynamic Security Agent 1.0.8.8FREE 7375 Good
F-Secure Icon F-Secure Internet Security 2007 7.01.128 6625 Good
Outpost PRO Icon Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 (1007.591.145) 6550 Good
Lavasoft Icon Lavasoft Personal Firewall 1.0.543.5722 (433) 6500 Good
BlackICE Icon BlackICE PC Protection 3.6.cpv 5750 Poor
Sunbelt Kerio Icon Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.3.635 5200 Poor
Look 'n' Stop Icon Look 'n' Stop 2.05p2 4800 Poor
Norton Icon Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33 4600 Poor
Safety.Net Icon Safety.Net 3.61.0002FREE 4000 Poor
Avira Icon Avira Premium Security Suite 7 build 98 2450 Very poor
SensiveGuard Icon SensiveGuard 1.06FREE 2350 Very poor
Sygate Icon Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6.2808FREE 2350 Very poor
McAfee Icon McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006 8.0 2325 Very poor
Blink Icon Blink Personal Edition 3.0.8.1496FREE 2250 Very poor
ZoneAlarm Free Icon ZoneAlarm Free 7.0.302.000FREE 1500 Very poor
CA Icon CA Personal Firewall 2007 3.0.0.196 1000 None
Outpost Free Icon Outpost Firewall Free 1.0.1817.1645FREE 1000 None
Norman Icon Norman Personal Firewall 1.42 750 None
BitDefender Icon BitDefender Internet Security 10.108 750 None
Panda Icon Panda Antivirus + Firewall 2007 6.00.00 650 None
Ashampoo Icon Ashampoo FireWall Pro 1.14 500 None
Filseclab Icon Filseclab Personal Firewall 3.0.0.8686FREE 500 None
AVG Icon AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall 7.5.431 500 None
Windows Icon Windows Firewall XP SP2FREE 0 None
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Interpretation of results

The clear winners of our tests are Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4.16.174 and Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.16 beta. Whilst Comodo is the best on its highest security settings, Jetico has the best default settings configuration. On the highest security settings, Comodo passed all leak-tests, Jetico failed against Breakout and pcAudit. These results are excellent! What is more, both firewalls are still in development and we can expect that they will pass all tests in their future versions. Congratulations!

Another important result of our tests is firewall scoring against FPR. FPR stands for Fake Protection Revealer. This leak-test was implemented to reveal cheating on leak-tests. Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 (971.584.079) was convicted of such cheating. It passes all leak-tests except FPR because of the implementation of user mode hooks (ring3) for security purposes. Our article Design of ideal personal firewall clearly says that ring3 hooks can not be used for security critical features. FPR does nothing but unhooks ring3 hooks which is always possible and thus bypasses such protection. This means that Outpost Firewall PRO cheats to be very strong against leak-tests but in fact it is very weak against real malware. The vendor of Outpost claims that Outpost is strong against the malware on this field but the reality is quite different. Another firewall that implements fake protection using user mode hooks only to bypass some leak-tests is Privatefirewall 5.0.8.11. Other firewalls that use ring3 hooks improperly are Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.3.268 and Look 'n' Stop 2.05p2. However, their hooks did not affect their test results that much. And unlike Outpost, their hooks were not implemented to mislead the end-users.

Fifteen of the tested firewalls were marked with Very poor or None anti-leak protection. This result is quite worrying because it shows that even today, when the malware programs are very sophisticated, still a lot of vendors simply do not care about the outbound connection control seriously.
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Curiosities and interesting notes

Some firewalls totally failed tests made against their default settings but their results on the highest security settings were much better. Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0.0.303 was the product with the biggest difference between the default settings score and the highest security settings score, this have changed since version 6.0.1.411. Another such product is Safety.Net.

Some products like BitDefender, F-Secure, McAfee, Panda, etc. include antivirus engines. The sad and funny thing in once is that lots of them mark leak-testing software as viruses or malware. The better engines mark leak-testing software only as potentially unwanted software, which is much better, but still it seems that these products worry about leak-tests. Why? To perform our tests against these products we had to switch antivirus engines of such products off to get real results of their anti-leak protection. Such behaviour can be also marked as cheating on leak-tests. Fortunately, it was always possible to disable the antivirus protection.

The most successful leak-tests was OSfwbypass. It failed only against six firewalls on its own and only against two when run via FPR. Good job! Another very successful leak-tests were Breakout, 3rd test of CPILSuite and PCFlank.

The least successful leak-test was LeakTest. It was able to score only against Windows XP SP2 firewall and against the default settings of a few other firewalls.

Testing Blink with FPR was not easy. Blink implements hundreds of user mode hooks in very unusual way. FPR was implemented to fix hooks that are at most 12 bytes long. We had to make a special compilation of FPR to be able to run it against Blink.

Testing ZoneAlarm Pro 7.0.337.000 was also a difficult task in some cases. ZoneAlarm implements anti-spyware scanning engine that we were not able to disable in its graphic user interface. When every single component of ZoneAlarm was turned off, some leak-tests were still forbidden to run. This was both weird and unpleasant. Why there was no chance for users to make their own decision? Anyway, some advanced techniques were used to bypass anti-spyware protection of ZoneAlarm and thus finally, all tests were performed successfully.

Another strange thing with ZoneAlarm is that it might seem that it passes PCFlank test, but in fact it does not. This leak-test tries to establish network connection with www.pcflank.com. ZoneAlarm invisibly includes this Internet address in its Spy Site Blocking list. So, if PCFlank contacted another website instead of the original one, it would bypass the protection. ZoneAlarm does not block the technique PCFlank presents, it blocks the target website which is harmless in fact.

if you like it - go and use it!
i like outpost and i don't care about comodo and other crap!
... waiting for a key )...

"Comodo Icon Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4.16.174FREE 9475 Excellent
Jetico v2 Icon Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.28 beta 9375 Excellent
ZoneAlarm Pro Icon ZoneAlarm Pro 7.0.337.000 8600 Very good
SSM Icon System Safety Monitor 2.4.0.617 beta 7975 Very good "

I haven't installed once.

Try this one:

0r/MwLyqypwvDY+BVQ7rGjXps2EKBMjJPq0qs9
aOeC9vb8MjuWUTdAlLTcSt2nXrFJDXEUyuXdOm
7DPUBGqDGunKGfyRLSFgLmeXP0s3BSUtgUMP3Z
YL+eO+5dqPoz0SdUzpM/0REbgsR0c0ui+IudpE
sloM6JUUpimWs1faqggHKCpsbHOaDWg==

Outpost Firewall PRO cheats to be very strong against leak-tests but in fact it is very weak against real malware.

It passes all leak-tests except FPR because of the implementation of user mode hooks (ring3) for security purposes. Our article Design of ideal personal firewall clearly says that ring3 hooks can not be used for security critical features. FPR does nothing but unhooks ring3 hooks which is always possible and thus bypasses such protection.

by Matousec


so, avoid using Outpost, it's best for your security

@skycaptain

where did you get the info. same as where hellblazer did?! @matousec.com

hmmmm.....

That leak test review doesn't review the Security Suite, which most likely includes patches and stuff against the leak's.... So I wouldn't trust it so much.

And about the user mode and kernel mode hooks, those are bunch of bollox.

BTW, Outpost Security Suite reviews are welcome.

Kaspersky AV + Comodo Firewall is the best!

Plus Anti-Spyware/Adware protection
Spyware Doctor 4 or 5
CounterSpy 2.0
Ad-Aware SE
eTrust Pestpatrol

anybody can give me some informatuon about pctools firewall?..is it good?

Ok here is the best solution for your windows pc!
The firewall Comodo and the Antivirus Kaspersky and you never gone have problems with your pc and for spyware kaspersky do the best so you do not lose performance with a lot programs working at the same time.And tray to avoid spyware and malicious programs that most of you use! Ex limeware kazza bearshare and a lot more programs like this kategorie of p2p softwares do a research before you install programs that has to be with p2p or toolbar or softwares that use active X special not let them install in your pc a lot of kids do that with the forums blogs so they can upload video clips in there blogs it is sad bat most of the softwares that have to do with entertainment they are malicious.I dont whant to bother you any more because the most of it you now so it is simple a good advise for you and how to treat nice your Pc! Have funn in your life and do a lot sex is healthy!

I'm using only the firewall from around 15 days and I'm really satisfy of it.
Its not invasive and u can set it really good.
I got rid of Zonealarm and I tested some few others so I suggest u alls just to TRY BEFORE YOU BUY.

kaspersky lol. Comodo is descent, but using kasperksy, riiiiight. Sorry, I've seen a comp. trashed by viruses and all the while kaspersky is sittin there doin jack shit. I Installed NOD32 and it ate that shit for breakfast.

i have to learn how to type *decent

No, you did good! I've seen the same thing... and that made me say the same thing about Krapsperky!

Give me a break.
The best protection for avoiding any threat from the Internet is not to use any PC, get it ?
The main reason why users always get virus/attack because of their unsafe operation and incorrect concept.

keyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..................... please.......................

Is this the discussion about Outpost or other firewalls? I thought we where talking about Agnitum Outpost Security Suite PRO 2007 (1214.616) Final here .. but no, everyone is talking about something else .. Why don't you guys post these replies on the suiteble places instead.

Post some articles for us to comment on... pls! :)

I've found thi key on Emule...can someone try if it is OK?

0r/MwLyqypwvDY+BVQ7rGjXps2EKBMjJPq0qs9
aOeC9vb8MjuWUTdAlLTcSt2nXrFJDXEUyuXdOm
7DPUBGqDGunKGfyRLSFgLmeXP0s3BSUtgUMP3Z
YL+eO+5dqPoz0SdUzpM/0REbgsR0c0ui+IudpE
sloM6JUUpimWs1faqggHKCpsbHOaDWg==

no
look up at some posts

Those keys doesnt work... Maybe someone has working k-e-y or c-r-a-c-k somewhere??

@DSNB2 don`t say that..because it is interesting to find now things other firewalls. This guys, only try to explain us, that other firewalls in combination with some antivirus program ...work very good. I don`t see any problem in that....

0FA28vyyC54eKvyiBJlI0CMRGDeql5IDZiC+0zqLnX
n1Ie/YFBc5ZhzvzRjaXIGDu6UDDy8TKCZS9M4zSyZq
WVATtw4ffiT/qmlQm/lXrAHIPXH/QXMm2OGlByojqG
hdrASYytCD+fLvCkqvoUZSbofe0pZwW8aebmlk72Tx
Xu2iaLFyLw2yRZMp2HLSTZxaTxgEHKuzBWQ==

wow , thank to you and to Dietmar Hein :)

Does anybody tried "Runner" leaktest from Matousec with this one.
Please post your results , i failed it.

Thanks for the key :D

======> --------- OUTPOST KEY BEGIN ----------
0FA28vyyC54eKvyiBJlI0CMRGDeql5IDZiC+0zqLnX
n1Ie/YFBc5ZhzvzRjaXIGDu6UDDy8TKCZS9M4zSyZq
WVATtw4ffiT/qmlQm/lXrAHIPXH/QXMm2OGlByojqG
hdrASYytCD+fLvCkqvoUZSbofe0pZwW8aebmlk72Tx
Xu2iaLFyLw2yRZMp2HLSTZxaTxgEHKuzBWQ==

---------- OUTPOST KEY END ----------- ====>VALID 729 DAY

Doesn't works with KAV antivirus...some difficult to load web pages and the system frozen up!

Is its antimalware solution effective. Please reply.

just got to know that outpost security suite uses its own created spyware solution and with it they have integrated "VIRUSBUSTER" antivirus solution. What a crap.

is this true??? What does it mean? That Outpost contains viruses?