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Latest news- 2008-04-08: Responses from Soft4Ever, the vendor of Look 'n' Stop, and NETGATE Technologies s.r.o., the vendor of FortKnox Personal Firewall, have been added.
- 2008-04-06: Results for these products and versions were published:
- AVG Internet Security 8.0.93
- FortKnox Personal Firewall 2008 3.0.195.0
- iolo Personal Firewall 1.5.2.7
- Look 'n' Stop 2.06
- Norton Internet Security 2008 15.5.0.23
- PC Tools Firewall Plus 3.0.1.9
- Rising Personal Firewall 2007 19.66.0.0
- System Safety Monitor 2.3.0.612
The best among the products tested today was clearly System Safety Monitor 2.3.0.612. It reached level 7 and scored 77%. Norton Internet Security 2008 15.5.0.23 reached the level 4 with 32% and was the second best product we tested today. All other firewalls failed in the tests completely, especially iolo Personal Firewall 1.5.2.7. - 2008-04-01: We have added two new rules to Firewall Challenge to improve its quality and we have also created a FAQ page. The first change in rules is that we will publish results of stable and publicly available versions only – i.e. no public results of beta or internal versions any more. The second change is that we will not publish the results of the paid Firewall Challenge testing if we published some results for the given product in the last month. The vendors are thus no longer able to quickly fix their products in response to our testing, ask us then for retesting and almost silently replace the old results in one or two days. This rule should prevent the unwanted behaviour of vendors that tend to focus on fighting the tests because of marketing and forget about other problems in their products.
- 2008-03-30: Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.21.329 has been retested, its vendor ordered a paid FWC testing with a belief that it smoothly passes all the tests. We are happy to announce that since today we have two firewalls that managed to score 100% in Firewall Challenge. More tests will be necessary to select the best among the today's elite personal firewalls.
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