With constant always-on broadband, there are going to be situations where if you leave your PC online, people will attempt to find a backdoor or security hole in your computer. Once they gain access, they can either control aspects of your PC, embed a keylogger or use other spyware to monitor your computer use. However, most modern broadband modems now include a hardware firewall which means it's far more difficult for someone to find a potential hole. Snag is, if you need to open up ports on your firewall, you may want to protect individual computers on your network that contain your most private information.

Agnitum Outpost Firewall Free 2009 is a free version of the commercial firewall that enables you to protect a local PC within your network with a basic firewall. This means that you can open up ports on your hardware firewall and then use a software firewall to protect individual machines, depending on your requirements, The free version of the firewall lacks some of the features, and support, from the professional version.

Outpost Firewall Free 2009 link.

29 Apr 2009