• McAfee Personal Firewall Plus
  This product is somewhat expensive but it is always worth all the bucks you shell out. McAffee Personal Firewall Plus is being sold in a yearly subscription basis rather than the one-time purchase. This kind of purchase may appeal to some buyers. Also, there is no existing free trial version for this product.
  Comparatively, this firewall software have a small footprint, which means it only requires low memory usage. However, McAfee for Windows ICS and IIS networks and web servers are not supported.

Now that you have a fairly good background about the top personal firewall software, it is now your responsibility to review and choose one to use for your home network protection.

• Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2004
  Although this product does not have a trial version and its graphical user interface is not as friendly as others’ are, Symantec makes sure that it is continuously improving. Coming from a reputable company, Norton Personal Firewall administers network security very efficiently and reliably.
• TINY Personal Firewall
  This product is relatively new to the network security scene. It boasts its low RAM or memory usage. It features an interesting time-based rule, which is relevantly useful because you can schedule what packet filters will operate at a certain time of day. Just for the record, the US Air Force is using this product.

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• Sygate® Personal Firewall PRO
  Symantec had already sacked this product out of the distribution market. Sygate PF PRO offered a solid protection for networks in home set ups. The software is also capable of logging every network activity and has automatic notifications via electronic mail.
• ZoneAlarm™ PRO
  This product is from Zone Labs. It is proprietary personal firewall software but there is also an available free downloads. The ZoneAlarm™ PRO has additional protection features like those that are similarly attached to antivirus software, ICS/NAT support and password protection. One of the best things that this product provides to your computer is that this software is running in a Stealth Mode, literally making your computer invisible.

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Our personal home network is always prone to system attacks by malicious intruders. There is a strong need to protect the systems. We address to assure protection of our personal systems by setting up personal firewall. Below is a list of top personal firewall software that offers competitive network protection and maintain your personal privacy while surfing the web.

• BlackICE™ PC Protection
  This product is the first-ever mainstream firewall software and has always remained to be the top choice personal firewall. The success of the software can be attributed to its quality UI or user interface, and its powerful logging capability.

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To check if your computer has been turned to a zombie, there are available test sites you can find on the net. But you don’t just trust any site, you have to be somewhat picky on the test site that you will choose. Take this general rule: do not rely completely on sites that are provided by some company that is offering you firewall software products because obviously the findings will be bias: they would tell you to purchase their product because that is what they wanted from you.

After installing a reliable and trusted personal firewall, make sure that it is configured correctly. Then test it to ensure that the application is working purposely.

Once you have found out that you can actually test the quality of security that is implemented in your computer when you are online, you will see that it totally make sense. And it will make more sense if you can actually do the test to ensure your system’s security.

Your computer opens 65, 535 ports while you are surfing online on the cyber space or also known as the Internet. Because ports are blatantly open, some Interne outlaw may scan your system and may try its hardest to install what is called as a ‘bot’. This will make personal computer a part of some ‘botnet’.

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Though there are many software developers in the field of security software, none have been around as McAfee which has been around since the days of the command-line PC. Many of today’s malware are reminiscent of malware from days gone by when viruses were the norm of the hacker. But from the innocent test of genius previous hackers showed, came more sinister actions such as the recurring DoS attacks that flooded servers the world over, leaving millions cut off from the rest of the world. Identity theft is also one of the more dangerous issues that have risen in the past years also brought to life by the movie “The Net”, where one person’s identity is substituted by another with little one can do due to the centralized data that is used for most banking and financial systems.
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On the news survey, the most latest firewall application is now on market. Comodo assert that their firewall is unique, distinctive, matchless and rare in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put firewall through all kinds of stylish tests to ensure its firewall powerful enough to ward off these attacks with default settings. No other firewall has had to work this hard.

-PC Magazine Online’s Editor’s Choice
-Secures against internal and external attacks
-Blocks internet access to malicious Trojan programs
-Safeguards your Personal data against theft
-Delivers total end-point security for
-Personal Computers and Networks

Tenable Nessus 3 landed top one on the Top 100 Network Security Tools survey conducted by Insecure.org. Because the survey for the years 2000 and 2003 were successes, they pushed another survey last 2006 with about 3, 243 respondents. Insecure.Org came up with 100 tool list, subdividing the list into categories. The respondents listed commercial and open source network security tools, regardless of the platform where the tool is allowed to run.

Top-listed Nessus is a premiere open source tool for vulnerability assessments. It natively works on different platforms like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, OS X and Windows. It is architected to have a GTK graphical user interface.

• Change the default administrator usernames and passwords. Router manufacturers set a default username and password as an access protection. However, these sets of default username and passwords are of simple logins vulnerable to Internet hackers. To ensure utmost login secrecy, change the default immediately.
• Activate compatible WPA and/or WEP Encryption. All wireless fidelity equipment have support for a form of encryption. Encryption is a technology that makes messages unreadable by humans when you sent it over a network, may it be LAN or wireless. Of course, you’d want to have the strongest encryption that is available for you to use with the wireless network you have.

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