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5 Reasons to Choose
Outpost
Firewall Pro
over Windows XP firewall
Given the
amount of Internet crime
nowadays, it is no surprise that
Microsoft decided to provide
Windows users with a built-in
firewall.
The Microsoft
firewall, Internet Connection
Firewall (ICF), is designed to
run on every PC equipped with
Windows XP Security Pack 2,
unless a user prefers to
activate a different firewall.
The good idea
of all Windows users being
protected by default firewall
turned out to be tricky: when
the same software protects
everyone, hackers do not need to
invent too many ways to intrude.
Imagine all the houses in your
neighborhood being equipped with
the same door locks: it is
enough to break one of them to
figure out how to open the
others. Therefore all security
software vendors, including
Agnitum, strongly recommend that
Windows users use a different
firewall, rather than Microsoft.
Why would you
choose Outpost over Microsoft
Firewall Check out the
comparison table of how these
two products cope with most wide
spread Internet dangers.
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Firewall 50 Business License |
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Spyware programs
gather information
about you and your
interests (such as
your surfing habits,
what other software
you have on your PC,
etc.) without your
knowledge or consent.
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Windows
Firewall (SP2) |
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Outpost
Firewall PRO |
Windows
Firewall does
not filter
outgoing
traffic, and
your personal
data may be
leaking.
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Not
only does
Outpost
protect you
from
hijacking, it
also keeps
your private
info from
leaking.
Active
Content
Plug-in
conceals your
surfing
history and
blocks
cookies.
Component
Control won't
let malicious
programs go
online and
send your data
to a remote
host.
Since
Outpost
monitors all network
activity
and blocks
illegal
connections,
no spyware can
work on your
PC either.
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Some Trojan horses can
be injected as a
module of a legitimate
application (for
example, your browser)
and thus gain the
privileges to go
online. Worms
propagate over a
network, reproducing
as they go.
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Denial-of-Service
Attacks
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A hacker figures out a
responding port on
your PC and sends a
huge amount of data to
it. The port is just
unable to accept all
of the data, the
system resources
exhaust, and the
system crashes and
cannot operate any
more.
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Windows
Firewall (SP2) |
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Outpost
Firewall PRO |
Microsoft
Windows
Firewall can
thoroughly
scan the
incoming
traffic, but
does not have
an utility for
detecting and
alerting
Denial-of-Service
attacks on
your computer.
Besides
Windows
Firewall can
not block
intruder by IP
and close him
all access to
your PC. That
means your
system can be
attacked, and
you will not
even know
about it.
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Outpost
Firewall
detects all
known types of
hacker
attacks,
including
Denial-of-Service,
and blocks
them promptly.
By default
Outpost puts
your system
into stealth
mode.
Attack
Detection
Plug-in
guards all the
data entering
your computer
and bans
dangerous
packets.
Outpost alerts
you on all
blocked
attacks and
saves this
data in the
Log Viewer.
Protocol
settings
allow
filtering of
all the
packets that
go through
your ports and
sort out
malicious
code. You can
choose the
security level
yourself, and
Outpost will
alert you each
time an attack
was blocked.
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The Internet contains
a lot of web sites
that should better be
concealed from your
children's eyes or
should not be
available in your
office.
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A firewall should not
only protect you, but
also be easy to use on
any system and for
user of any level of
computer literacy
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Windows
Firewall (SP2) |
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Outpost
Firewall PRO |
Microsoft
Firewall does
not provide a
special tool
for analyzing
and logging
the network
activity and
is rather hard
to configure
for a novice
user. It
provides every
user with
quite raw
standard
preferences
which are not
very easy to
change.
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Outpost
Firewall Pro
provides you
with a full
out-of-box
protection
from the
moment of
installation.
Auto-Configuration
of security
settings are
applied to all
the software
on your PC,
and the
firewall
starts
protecting
right away.
Wizard
Mode will help
the novices to
work with the
program
settings and Application
Rulesets,
that
automatically
guard the
network
activity of
all the
applications
on your PC.
Visual
Alert System
signals you
every time an
attack was
blocked or
suspicious
e-mail
attachment
re-named.
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Conclusion:
Outpost wins 5-0!
A built-in
firewall is another step in the
Windows security taken by
Microsoft; however it is hardly
enough to protect you, mostly
because it is a very standard
solution.
To protect
yourself from hackers and other
dangers, you need an arsenal of
defense not available to
intruders. Outpost is tough on
hackers, but not on you: it
guards all connections on your
PC, but it is easy to use. 100%
filtering of outbound and
inbound traffic provided by
Outpost and a high level of
control over connections will
protect your computer from all
known dangers and attacks.
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