When you hear "firewall"...what have you in your mind?

[ichito]

This thread is perhaps rather like our memories but I think both young and old users could answer my question

If you think "firewall"...nice, old, effective, secure, strong, useful...whatever...what have you in your mind?...in your memories? No matter when and no mattter in what system - name 3 examples and maybe why such ones?
My examples
- Kerio Personal Firewall...still from years on my XP as the rock solid protection connected with olds-chool (simple and clear) interface
- Filseclab Personal Firewall PE...as the "sweet candy" among firewalls with a lot of useful option and features
- Online Armor ...because it just was the best and because of Emu

 

[TairikuOkami]

Private Firewall - free and powerful, contained HIPS, so it could catch child processes trying to connect as well.
Outpost Firewall - easy to setup and use, until they included anti-spyware and literally destroyed it in the process.
Sphinx Firewall Control - zero performance impact, once setup, you can get rid of GUI, then it uses 10-20 MB RAM.

I miss good old firewalls. These days firewalls are basically just allow/block or there is the overcomplicated Comodo.

 

[ichito]

Haha I like PFW and Outpost also...but there was no other options - 3 means 3

 

[BoraMurdar]

Spoiler: It brings memories to...

 

[Andy Ful]

Outpost (my first), Sphinks (most configurable), and Comodo (integrated with sandbox).

 

[Burrito]

-Tiny
-ZoneAlarm
-OnlineArmor

 

[Threadripper]

UFW and Comodo.

 

[Ink]

PC Tools Firewall Plus - PC Tools (company) - Wikipedia

 

[dinosaur07]

SpyShelter.

 

[DeepWeb]

Comodo, PrivateFirewall, Outpost in the past. But this decade the word firewall meant the thing in my Wifi Gateway that I just have to trust.

 

[Zartarra]

My first firewall was Sygate Personal Firewall, a long time ago in a world far far away..

My favorites are Online armor, Outpost and Private firewall.

The good old days:

Too bad Emsisoft terminated the development.

 

[71Hemi]

I too ran Sygate Personal Firewall as my first, loved how well it logged and preformed. Second was Private Firewall for how lite it was and its HIPS, and third am currently running Look'n'Stop Firewall with Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Sad to say but Linux is calling next year. Those were the days...

 

[eonline]

Kerio 2.1.5
Outpost Firewall free 2009.
Those are the firewalls I miss the most.

 

[low L!fe]

My Favorite Firewall
Zone alarm or spy shellter

 

[Back3]

What I have on my mind...
Twenty years ago, I read everywhere: get a good antivirus and a firewall and you'll be very secure!

 

[ichito]

PC Tools Firewall Plus - PC Tools (company) - Wikipedia

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Great app based on Look'n'Stop engine so two memories in one firewall

 

[aliali]

Kaspersky Anti-Hacker:emoji_ok_hand:

 

[BigWrench]

Online Armor
Outpost
Sunbelt

 

[SumTingWong]

Windows Firewall.

Emsisoft Online Armor.

 

[Svoll]

First thing that came in my mind was ZoneAlarm as that is my first firewall program, then Comodo which is my next firewall and Comodo has given me a headstart on dealing with hardware firewall (SonicWall).

Comodo firewall was way too much effort to block an outgoing and incoming connection, I am glad I learned it as it make dealing with all other firewall so much easier, Love and Hate relationship with comodo =D then when comodo went full security suite, it was all HATE, kind like when Emsisoft drop their simple firewall..........Done ranting.....