Installed on day of giveaway and was fine for a bit, however It now takes ages to do anything and constantly flags Nvidia dll's (mostly the same one) and states they are 4/5 or 5/5 dangerous, ignoring all remember this is safe indications I tell it. Uninstalled after it told for the 35th time the dll was unsafe and would I like to allow it and I'll remember it is.

When I try to add the license code, it says something like "Entered license key is incorrect; please buy a new one."

Key is invalid when you try and upgrade to pro

Try GlassWire. Oustanding firewall and great other function. And cheaper than this software.

BTW also on their product home page:

"Minimum Requirements

Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 10
.NET Framework 4.5 - Download"

Note it says it supports Vista... I did install it under Vista and it runs without error but since I already have a satisfactory GUI for windows firewall that forfills all my firewall per executable control needs I removed it before it could chew up my pre-existing firewall rules with its own.

Their product home page states:

"Compatible

Xvirus Personal Firewall is designed to be compatible with Windows Firewall! "

One never runs TWO discrete firewalls one will always take precidence or they will conflict. UNLESS one is a GUI for the other which lacks a user friendly GUI. I suspect that this is NOT a firewall program in itself since it installs no ring0 filters or drivers and is simply a single .NET executable with a few .db database files of rules. I suspect this is a GUI and set of new rules for the windows firewall to enable more granular control of the outbound and inbound packets on a per application/process basis. If so I'd much prefer the ones I use Privatefirewall 7.0 on Vista and Malwarebytes Windows Firewall Control 6.4 on Windows 10 which are always free and have proven themselves to be stable.

A couple of quick notes:

I haven't downloaded this, so can't comment on it specifically, but the vast majority of Windows 10 "firewalls" are just front end controls for the existing Windows 10 firewall, which can do all sorts of decent stuff when you can talk to it. I don't know if this is that or not.

The other note is that there is no way, NO WAY, to be connected to the Internet and prevent the backdoor Microsoft uses to send a ton of your personal info to its servers. Since they control the OS, they can do just about anything with the outbound connections, and as they hoover endless info from your machine about your software, your browsing, your emails, pretty much everything you do, nothing currently exists to stop them from doing so.

Those freeware programs that claim to 'protect your privacy from Microsoft' are just nonsense. Yes, they stop a small amount of data from going out, but nothing can stop the wholesale theft of your info by Microsoft - it takes place far too deep inside the Win10 OS.

Why do you suppose it is that the disk access light on WIN10 desktop machines NEVER stops blinking from the instant you first boot WIN10?

Rejected by microsoft and sophos

Is an antivirus without updates worth even installing? It could be outdated within a minute without updates.

I downloaded fine but the program won't open.

up and running look good to me i will try running it for a couple of hours and report back if any thing it not good no update all ok

I expect to receive hundreds of Thumbs Down for this comment because, rather than correcting someone elses critique of how he/she feels the interface looks, and getting lots of thumbs up for so doing, I thought I might actually comment on the program offered here.

From what I can tell this has a pretty small footprint and one thing it does nicely is monitor any 'Phone home' behaviour of any software. It also asks if you wish to allow, for example,. a program software update (Which depending on the program in question, might or might not be unwanted).


NOT good is the fact that there are loads of settings that can be altered but doesn't give any idea of what or how so a lot of guesswork needed.

Best thing is this works alongside any 'Firewall' as this is designed to be an addition to the service carried out by your existing firewall.

I shall leave it running for now, but it seems to have more going for it than against - so far.

No Email needed to register - simple as it gets. Just copy/paste the code given into box which opens when button bottom left is clicked. Happy Days,

The initial download is 1.07MBytes NOT the shown 101KBytes in the information panel.

Do not forget to uncheck "Enable Automatic Updates" in general settings once you have activated this giveaway. Note I would not recommend something like a 3rd party firewall from a giveaway that prohibits free updates since it is possible a security problem could prompt a critical update that the giveaway participant would not be entitled to for free and because they should disable automatic updates they likely will never be made aware the firewall has become unsafe.

lifetime license nice for a change

Previous comment...sorry, i meant ZA Firewall is a massive resource hog, not Xvirus Personal Firewall Pro!

Would love to see it portable for use in less secure environments (my main concern)! Only ZoneAlarm offers software or application control, so it's amazing to find another one that does so as well and it's a massive resource hog.

This software is out of date.

The UI needs updating
The firewall list needs to be searchable
Options are needed to find the source file or app that is calling home.
There needs to be a better block on the block a call home (e.g. "for this session," i.e. remove firewall entry on power down to allow installation of software and then block)
The ability to block by application I.e. "Click to Run" has about 10 separate calls to MS and each one must be blocked.

Overall it is more cumbersome than MS Defender. And, if you are willing to take the time to check each call home, it is superior in many ways to defender.

If there is a better alternative to this, I.e. a better UI more tools and better firewall I would switch. But I still use it with it's defects.

There is more but it

Comodo Firewall, used it for years and wouldn't change for anything.

Windows has a firewall, this software just replaces it. It's not needed.

Yeah I tend to agree why would i want another firewall when windows has one built in ... well unless they have removed it without my knowledge ???

First impression, the GUI look's amateurish and one dimensional like the start of a game from the 1980's

As far as I know, Windows has a firewall that is also enabled.