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I've heard nothing bad about Kerio and as far as I'm concerned it's fine. Personally I recently switched to Outpost Firewall and am very impressed, plus it's got an active user community which i always look for when deciding whether to take up a product.

Yes, the free version does have bits removed (the parts most useful for networks) but for standalone PCs it does do a good job. However its performance against leaktests is not so good nowadays.

I've not used Free for a long time but under Options/System there should be an option to "Enable NetBIOS communication" (covered here in the Web-Hikers Guide) which should do if you want basic file/printer sharing. If you need ICS then this is not supported (although someone here apparently did get it to work). If a specific application needs network access, then adding a rule for it should be no problem. If you still have difficulties, then posting in the user-run support forum would be your best bet.

they deliberately crippled version 1.0 before offering it free, the better to make it a shill for version 2.0

Outpost Free and Outpost Pro 1.0 were both available before 2.0 was released. While the Free version had some features taken out, it can hardly be called "crippled" and for standalone use should be adequate for most people. Outpost 2.0 has replaced 1.0 Pro - there apparently will be a free version of 2.0 once all the issues are sorted out, but it will be far more restricted than 1.0 was.

Yes, the free version does have bits removed (the parts most useful for networks) but for standalone PCs it does do a good job. However its performance against leaktests is not so good nowadays.

I've not used Free for a long time but under Options/System there should be an option to "Enable NetBIOS communication" (covered here in the Web-Hikers Guide) which should do if you want basic file/printer sharing. If you need ICS then this is not supported (although someone here apparently did get it to work). If a specific application needs network access, then adding a rule for it should be no problem. If you still have difficulties, then posting in the user-run support forum would be your best bet.

they deliberately crippled version 1.0 before offering it free, the better to make it a shill for version 2.0

Outpost Free and Outpost Pro 1.0 were both available before 2.0 was released. While the Free version had some features taken out, it can hardly be called "crippled" and for standalone use should be adequate for most people. Outpost 2.0 has replaced 1.0 Pro - there apparently will be a free version of 2.0 once all the issues are sorted out, but it will be far more restricted than 1.0 was.

Yes, the free version does have bits removed (the parts most useful for networks) but for standalone PCs it does do a good job. However its performance against leaktests is not so good nowadays.

I've not used Free for a long time but under Options/System there should be an option to "Enable NetBIOS communication" (covered here in the Web-Hikers Guide) which should do if you want basic file/printer sharing. If you need ICS then this is not supported (although someone here apparently did get it to work). If a specific application needs network access, then adding a rule for it should be no problem. If you still have difficulties, then posting in the user-run support forum would be your best bet.

they deliberately crippled version 1.0 before offering it free, the better to make it a shill for version 2.0

Outpost Free and Outpost Pro 1.0 were both available before 2.0 was released. While the Free version had some features taken out, it can hardly be called "crippled" and for standalone use should be adequate for most people. Outpost 2.0 has replaced 1.0 Pro - there apparently will be a free version of 2.0 once all the issues are sorted out, but it will be far more restricted than 1.0 was.

Yes, the free version does have bits removed (the parts most useful for networks) but for standalone PCs it does do a good job. However its performance against leaktests is not so good nowadays.

I've not used Free for a long time but under Options/System there should be an option to "Enable NetBIOS communication" (covered here in the Web-Hikers Guide) which should do if you want basic file/printer sharing. If you need ICS then this is not supported (although someone here apparently did get it to work). If a specific application needs network access, then adding a rule for it should be no problem. If you still have difficulties, then posting in the user-run support forum would be your best bet.

they deliberately crippled version 1.0 before offering it free, the better to make it a shill for version 2.0

Outpost Free and Outpost Pro 1.0 were both available before 2.0 was released. While the Free version had some features taken out, it can hardly be called "crippled" and for standalone use should be adequate for most people. Outpost 2.0 has replaced 1.0 Pro - there apparently will be a free version of 2.0 once all the issues are sorted out, but it will be far more restricted than 1.0 was.

If you liked AtGuard, then check out Outpost Firewall. Version 1.0 is free while version 2.0 (better against leaktests, new logging system) has a 30-day trial. This allows you to craft specific rules (direction, protocol, port, IP address) for each application and has a number of plugins for other tasks (ad-filtering, activex/java/script/cookie control, DNS cache). There's an online guide and a user-run support forum.

For anti-virus software, have a look at Grisoft AVG. It's free for personal use, though you need to supply a valid email to get a registration code.

If you liked AtGuard, then check out Outpost Firewall. Version 1.0 is free while version 2.0 (better against leaktests, new logging system) has a 30-day trial. This allows you to craft specific rules (direction, protocol, port, IP address) for each application and has a number of plugins for other tasks (ad-filtering, activex/java/script/cookie control, DNS cache). There's an online guide and a user-run support forum.

For anti-virus software, have a look at Grisoft AVG. It's free for personal use, though you need to supply a valid email to get a registration code.

Users of the Agnitum Outpost firewall can download the Blockpost plugin which blocks access to sites at the IP level (i.e. you would not even be able to ping such restricted sites). A Blockpost filter list based on the P2P Enemies list can be found in this thread.

Users of the Agnitum Outpost firewall can download the Blockpost plugin which blocks access to sites at the IP level (i.e. you would not even be able to ping such restricted sites). A Blockpost filter list based on the P2P Enemies list can be found in this thread.