Outpost and Kerio have always been two of the most potent firewalls but personally I'm content to rely on a hardware firewall & windows firewall.
I know they won't save me if my PC gets infected but... They say prevention is better than cure, personally I say avoidance is better than prevention.
Block everything that could possibly be dangerous and don't download any executables from untrusted sites (absolutely no warez
) .. you're not going to get infected unless you're extremely unlucky. Even if that did happen I would spot it pretty darn quickly - What's running, Hijack this, windows forensic tool chest, etc... I know if even if the lowliest of files so much a sneezes.
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Originally Posted by carnageX  Avast isn't on the list because this is top rated firewalls not antivirus . There's already a top AV list, and Avast is on it . |
There is a
lot of crossover between the two these days, either one can't do its job with out some properties of the other. but yeah there is still a distinction.