Firewalls in General

If you are reading this review, it means that its very often that you browse the internet, and it also means that this review can be of great help to you, so read on.... What is a firewall anyway? In the simplest of words, a Personal firewall is a piece of software designed specifically to protect a single computer. It does this by operating in two basic ways. Firstly, it prevents any applications or portions of the OS from communicating over the internet unless you give explicit permission. Secondly, it protects the computer against incoming attacks. When someone scans a common port range on your computer, they may be looking for a number of things, for ...  Read the complete review

Private Keep Out! That’s the way you want your computer to be and there is no better way than to keep your machine private than by using a Firewall. How many computer users using Windows Operating System and Microsoft software know just exactly what happens when they boot up their computers? The first thing that happens once a computer is up and running is that Windows Explorer tries to send a data stream to presumably Microsoft and continues to do so at intervals until the computer is switched off. Whether the computer is connected to the Internet or not makes no difference as WE goes about its task with robotic fervour. The next thing to happen ...  Read the complete review

Been looking at Firewalls and thought that I would pen a line or two. For the past month or so, mad Zorba the geek who gets in our boozer, has been yammering on at me to get a firewall or suffer the dire consequences of an uninvited visit from an Internet hacker hell bent on mayhem. With this in mind dear reader, I set forth to procure just such an artefact for the princely sum of precisely bugger all (or as close to it as I could manage). Hehe! However, I am getting ahead of myself here. As is usual with my ramblings in this mighty DooYoo organ, rather than just assume that you know what a Firewall is and why you want one, I will first attempt to explain a ...  Read the complete review