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<title><![CDATA[By: threats-review]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm using zone alarm free firewall. Do you have experienced zone alarm and if so which one is better? .Anyway, thanks for this info.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:37:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Seascoot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Installed on XP Pro SP3.

Registered OK.

Does not work due to the “filter driver failed to load” issue.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:02:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/beethink-spydetector-20/#comment-75673</link>
<description><![CDATA[#68, Giovanni, I look at multiple sources of information on products (depending, of course, on whether it interests me enough), including professional and user reviews, the website, release notes and support information, forums, etc.  Awards and Editor's Choices mean little to me, for a lot of reasons.  I give my opinion, but I don't tell others what to think or choose.  If you like Comodo, fine.  Yes, it passes leak tests, but the release notes tell me that the quality is quite far below what I'm willing to accept.  I use Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro 2009.  It has plenty of problems, bugs, and needs a number of UI improvements, but it doesn't have anything like the very fundamental bugs listed in Comodo's release notes.  Jetico doesn't rate well.  Online Armor is certainly worth a look.  I haven't tried it, but the website is moderately good.  They publish their security ratings of known software.  It has a number of good features.  It's clearly different from Outpost in many respects.  They don't indicate how their databases are updated and distributed.  It's capable of using firewall rules, but generally doesn't (applications are simply allowed Internet access or not).  Outpost is heavily rule-based, but most applications are automatically identified and predefined application-specific rules applied.  It can automatically learn rules (this is the best choice on a clean system for known-clean applications).  If it prompts a user for rules, it selects probable rules which the user can modify.  It uses secure hashes to identify and check all executables.

I don't see where SpyDetector does much of anything that a real firewall doesn't already do, and it certainly does far less.  As for your query about email addresses, etc., I'll tell you how Outpost works.  In the first place, no communication can occur unless the application or process is known to be safe (identified via a secure hash), or the user has given explicit permission.  The whole point of anti-leak technology and HIPS is to prevent the firewall from being bypassed by any means.  Outpost Security Suite has twenty-five logs, not counting temporary logs, intentionally kept as text so they can be read by humans or processed by other software, if you find Outpost's log viewers to be insufficient.  The logs cover different things, some cover firewall functions, some cover anti-malware functions, and some cover the operation of Outpost itself.  You can specify the maximum sizes for the logs.  Since I normally use webmail, for the purposes of this test I used webcam security software which monitors motion, captures audio and video, and sends email stills to my cell phone.  The logs show when the webcam software is launched, that it's scanned and verified, shows when it launches other components, shows them being scanned, shows when the email is sent (and from which process), the size, from and to email addresses, etc., shows the names of the JPEG files being attached, shows them being scanned, etc.  True, Outpost only logs information about data being sent and received, it doesn't store that data.  Its own log viewers will do DNS lookups, but not Whois (you can always do that based on the information supplied).  You have access to both the text log files, and the text from the processed log files via Outpost's UI.  In addition to logs, you have all sorts of realtime connection information.  SpyDetector is unlikely to be compatible with Outpost, and I don't see where it provides any useful information that Outpost doesn't, and Outpost certainly provides far more information.

Being a true firewall, Outpost has all the functions that one would expect a firewall to have, including stealth ports, attack detection, blocking, etc.  There are plenty of settings for advanced users to play with.  "Macros" (named ports, ranges, protocols, etc.) are available so that you frequently don't have to use numbers.

#74, Blackstickman, I strongly recommend Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro over Outpost Firewall because the firewall, like most modern firewalls, performs considerable scanning for HIPS, etc., and will shut down many of its features, especially on Vista, when you use other security software, which you'll need to.  Outpost Security Suite has fully integrated anti-virus and anti-malware scanners, which avoids compatibility issues and wasted compute and disk access.  Its anti-virus and anti-malware signature scanners and UI aren't that good, but the overall protection of the integrated suite is better than a crippled Outpost Firewall with separate top-notch anti-virus and anti-malware scanners.  In the early (pre-Internet) days, malware was generally designed to either do something annoying, like display messages or mess with your display, or something harmful, like delete files or reformat your disk.  While that can still happen, most malware today is either designed to download data, such as to display ads in your browser, or send out data, such as passwords, credit card numbers, etc., or to propagate itself to other computers.  Therefor, the malware will be caught when it tries to communicate, so the signatures are less important.  You'll get some false positives, but you can exclude those.  Outpost also includes ad blocking, which you may also need to exclude some websites from.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:05:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: BeeThink]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/beethink-spydetector-20/#comment-75672</link>
<description><![CDATA[#84
Thank you for using BeeThink SpyDetector. But it does not support 64-bit Windows system in 2.0 version.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:51:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: cashgangnet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[#19
Phil, what has the Moscow based to do with it? Kaspersky runs in english! Easy to use!
Or do you really think a USA or UK/European based company is more trustworthy?
Is it not UK New Labour and Germany that are planning the "big brother" attack on the internet? I didn't hear anything from Russia yet!]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:28:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: reghacker]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/beethink-spydetector-20/#comment-75670</link>
<description><![CDATA[At this late hour nobody will read this anybody, but I'll post it

From Beethink....

I think the main purpose of BeeThink SpyDetector is network monitoring, it can even display suspect packet detailed contents by double-clicking it. If you try it, you will get more interesting things—some programmes which you trust have strange behavior.
BeeThink SpyDetector is not a spyware remover tool. There are so many spyware remover tools out there.

Most everyone here is missing the whole point, including me earlier.

This is similar to an intrusion detection system. supposedly to analyze network traffic signatures by using signature analysis.

It's basically a packet sniffer with a whois lookup

If you want the best, download Wireshark:
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

You'll also need to download WinPcap to use it:
http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:31:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Harry]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/beethink-spydetector-20/#comment-75669</link>
<description><![CDATA[#83: Ad-Aware works very well on Vista. It always did.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:54:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Luis Perez]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/beethink-spydetector-20/#comment-75668</link>
<description><![CDATA[Software installed on Windows XP 64 bit without error, however the Filter does not load, so the software is essentially, crippled.

Activation was successful and easy.

The "BeeThink IP Address WhoIs 1.0" application will only search on IP addresses and will not find domain names; it would to have that at times.

Running the main application (which also notifies you of the Filter load error), displays a simple interface. The GUI is clean, but the font choosen for the Icons and the location of them make it alsmost impossible to read.

Fields/columns) can be resized, but can not be re-arraged (moving location of a column or sorting by it.

You can create firewall rules that are pretty customized. instead of using a drop down, you may wish to use a Logic Tree approach. As the user selects options, a new set of dropdowns or checkboxes are displayed.

The application has a Wizard which is useful for first time users. Better screen shots can lead to better usability and understanding of the software.

The software does not have a way to allow you to back up the registration key once it is installed.

I could not test the application any further on a 64 bit system due to the filter load failure. If the application is not meant to work on 64bit systems, validation needs to be put in place to prevent installation of the application. If it does work, then there is a serious bug in the system.

Unfurtunetly, I will not have time to test this app in a 32 bit OS since it will be after 12am my time by the time I get to test it, and registaration will fail. I will be happy test it if the company would like to make arrangements.

Luis
bitsmt.com]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:51:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: William]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[#4, Ad-Aware didn't have a Vista version a couple of days ago.  They disappoint me because they found much more than Spybot ever did. 

Again, thanks for the alternates.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:03:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: SLUGGO]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/beethink-spydetector-20/#comment-75666</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why Google analytics are tracking your surfing? I didn't wonder about it either,  cause I did not know until I installed this software.  
They aren't now.  I guess thats what the block feature is for.

sluggo]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:44:13 -0500</pubDate>
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