Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use.
Features:
• Blocks all externally originated IP traffic. • Automatic stealth mode renders the desktop invisible to potential intruders. • Automatically blocks all pop-up windows and banner ads. • Detects break-in attempts by infamous hacker tools. • Connections dialog clearly displays each application's activity at any given moment.
What's new:
• added Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS). HIPS prevents attacks that reach vulnerable applications from succeeding by blocking any illegitimate behaviour attempted by the affected applications. This feature is available in registered version only. • Simpler configuration window • System Security was renamed to Behaviour Blocking to meet current industry conventions. • Intrusions were renamed to NIPS (Network IPS) to distinguish between network intrusions and new Host Intrusions (HIPS). • New Intrusions pane was created. It includes three types of intrusion blocking - NIPS, HIPS and Behaviour Blocking. • 'System' and 'Intrusions' logs were renamed to be consistent with new Intrusions pane. • dropped support for Windows 98, ME, NT4. • Many improvements and bug fixes