Whats the best firewall?

[4play]

outpost is my favourite and always wins in any of the firewall shootout tests i have seen.

[Chewie]

Yes, Outpost has certainly impressed me.
It's the only one since @Guard that I've installed and immediately thought Yeah!

[BILLY-THE-FISH]

Do you guys use Outwood and a seperate Anti-virus prog.?
Because does'nt Outwood have an anti-virus built in?

[BrolyBoo]

i got ZAP and its pretty good

works for me

[Boogieman117]

If you have an old box and some time, try m0nowall a whirl.

[skelley521]

XP's firewall only blocks inbound not out.
I use ZA v4.5 as this is the version that the federal gov. ask the makers to lighten up so they could have access. I also use XP's and have tested my system on several port/firewall test sites and this configuration works well with my system.

TechTV had a hacker test and dropped all firewalls;opened all ports;posted their IP and anyone that could access their system; open notepad and write their name would win a $5,000 pc.
Nobody won.

[confite]

I have Agnitum Outpost and works great for me (The best so far of three that i have tested, outpost, zone alarm & symantec firewall).

[ZaZu]

XP's firewall only blocks inbound not out.
I use ZA v4.5 as this is the version that the federal gov. ask the makers to lighten up so they could have access. I also use XP's and have tested my system on several port/firewall test sites and this configuration works well with my system.

What did they do to "lighten up" or did they?... do you know?

[RealitY]

My last use of ZA was some time ago which seemed to be the cause of differnt issues to the point that the system had to be reformatted which may have been from it causing corruption in the cmd tables though cant be sure that was the cause. However at that time switched to Sygate and never looked back and have never had issues with it. Ive always been curious to test some others but have had no reason to. As for the new look of ZA it just seems a bit bloated to me something similar to Norton although cant say as havent used and most likelt never will...

[nabeelisnabeel]

I hate firewalls. never use them and ,yes, I use windows 98.