Talk:Firewall

1. ThePhysicist, Winpooch simply monitors changes to the system and asks you to allow them or not (and also enables on access scanning for clamwin.) It is not a firewall at all.

1. The homepage says the following about WinPooch: "Winpooch uses the API Hooking method. It spies programs when they are running and gives to the user a powerful control of their activity.For example, you can forbide a program to write in a system directory or in the registry, or else to connect to internet. That makes the difference between others anti spywares using a database of known signatures." So it also has firewall capabilities. [ThePhysicist]

1. I have tried it and it's great. It is very easy to use and does all a desktop firewall like ZoneAlarm does. You can monitor file access, reg write, net connect and net listen (for different IPs and ports, different protocols not yet) for all your software. You can configure for allow/deny/feign, you can make it ask and log. This is even better (and much easier) than Trend Micro desktop firewall. It still works as application not as service. This has to be changed, I think. And some little things have to be enhanced, but it's still beta. I now use it as desktop firewall / antispy on my 2nd pc. No more need for different programs like ZoneAlarm/SpybotS&DResident. I will try to use it in ROS next... [ThePhysicist]