| Good information here, thanks!
A really good firewall you guys happened to miss was Kerio's personal firewall. Their site lists it as a 30-day trial, but it keeps working after that. It just loses some things that aren't terribly important for home users like remote administration, ad-blocking, etc. They have a comparative list on their site. Anyway, Kerio provides a lot of customization options, it's pretty lightweight so it doesn't eat up a whole lot of system resources, and has some pretty good documentation.
Its only real possible drawback is it isn't mind-numbingly simple to use. But even if you don't read IEEE whitepapers for fun, you should be able to figure things out pretty quick.
Link: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm |