I’ve been using Agnitum’s Outpost firewall for several years. Like it alot and have recommended it. Unfortunately Agnitum’s been bought out, and the firewall will be going away in short order.
For those of us with paid licenses they’re offering two years free of Kaspersky’s firewall. Kaspersky’s not one I’d looked at closely, but doing so now I was less than thrilled. Better than nothing, but not something I’m going to want to use long term probably. I’d about decided to take the free install till I could find something else, when I discovered that Kaspersky doesn’t play well with my antivirus of choice.
Yay.
Doing more poking around I ran across Comodo’s firewall. Reviews look good, other than the usual “watch what check boxes you leave checked during install” thats pretty standard these days. Anyone have any input on it? Or for that matter, have a different firewall you use? This is a Windows 7 machine, and though I keep saying I’m going to duel boot with Mint the Win7 side won’t be going away any time soon due to having too many programs that need Windows……
Sonicwall makes some nice firewall devices. Website filtering, antivirus, blocking of known suspicious urls and IP addresses. They are moderately expensive and you have a yearly subscription on top of that but they protect your entire network from the printers to the playstation to the refrigerator.