Avast is only a Anti Virus Product.
For the best free firewall download Sygate Personal.
I would stay away from Zone Alarm as can be very buggy while sygate is clean.
This so not true... best free firewall is not Sygate and that's for sure. Far better than Syagte is Agnitum Outpost, plus it's much easier to set and use.... additional plus, freeware version contains additional very useful plug-ins like ADS, CONTENT, DNS CACHE, ACTIVE CONTENT, ATTACHMENTS FILTER and ATTACK DETECTION. Sygate ? I don't think so...
Btw, Sygate has some issues when you have to Shut off your PC. Maybe you haven't noticed (or maybe you don't have that problem), but there is hundreds of reported cases, and Sygate still didn't respond... here is just one of those reports (Sygate forums):
http://forums.sygate.com/vb/showthread.php?s=503a76d4ac713f91e9f158372eccaf8b&threadid=11098I had same problem before. When I couldn't take it anymore, no one is doing anything at Sygate to fix that problem anyway, I was so glad to uninstall it from my machine finaly... that is when Outpost started to keep my system safe...
ZoneAlarm had some issues before. I've heard and I know it's true, latest builds are so stable and working perfectly. The only problem is 'cause ZA is still system hog... but saying that ZoneAlarm is buggy, is completely nonsense.
crisp biscuit wrote:
I would stay away from Zone Alarm as can be very buggy while sygate is clean.
Sygate = clean ? I don't know why, but somehow I can not swallow that...
Cheers !