ConSeal PC Firewall

Pros: Small
Cons: Configuration

Sure we all want to protect ourselves from the hackers on the outside. But after using this program for 2 weeks, I wasn't all that sure I was being protected at all!


This whole review based strictly on home use. I am neither a...

Pros: filters out potentially harmful network traffic
Cons: none

Okay, you've been kicked offline by a bunch of kids with ICQ nukers. Or you've inadvertently infected your computer with BackOrifice, so every time you're online someone starts changing your Windows Desktop (or editing your registry, ha ha). Well,...

Pros: Easy to setup, user-friendly, helpful information in form of help files.
Cons: Have to drop connection to ISP in order to close application.

Firewalls take lots of configuring and tinkering to be useful, right? Not any more. Signal9's ConSeal PC Firewall is quite possibly one of the most user-friendly anti-attack methods I've seen to date. ConSeal allows most 'legitimate' services without...

Pros: Highly configurable, great protection.
Cons: May be confusing to the novice user.

Ever share files (like mp3) across the internet? Then you need a firewall. ConSeal This is the best firewall for Windows users. It's available for Windows 95, 98 and NT.

Firewalls will soon be standard equipment on PCs, and I've been testing...

Pros: the best protecting device ready for new technology
Cons: i find nothing wrong with it

I got this because when I was new to America Online, I clicked on an ip stealer, an ip is what hackers use to get into your pc, and then they started messing with my computer, by writing things into a chat rooms that I didn't really write and turned my...

Pros: The classic software firewall - great protection.
Cons: Too technical - easy to make mistakes.

I have found it necessary to edit and change this opinion a little following my discovery of a newer, better alternative. No, not the turn off the computer and do something more constructive instead alternative. I mean another firewall that addresses the...

Pros: Small, not too difficult to set up..
Cons: Rulesets can be confusing, and Dynamic Rulesets suck...

I personally think you can do a lot better than ConSeal for a Windows firewall. I found it's rulesets more confusing than an ipchains ruleset for linux, and it's auto-add feature for rulesets ended up blocking out more acceptable data than it did with...