New Leak-tests

[Humpty]

We have leak-tested more firewalls (namely Ashampoo, Avira and Privatefirewall) and started with testing of new versions of already tested products.

Link

[DennisD]

How much faith can you put in all these different tests ?

If you took notice of them all you would be changing your security applications every other day.

 

My firewall is Norton, and I`ve never had anything through, although it ranks poorly in this test.

 

I`m not an expert , but I think a measure of effectiveness is simply how much stuff gets through or not.

Be your own judge IMHO, and change if you think it neccessary.

 

And it could be a case of having the right combination. System Synergy I think is a good term.

 

Regards

[JDPower]

Not completely convinced by those results. I still use Sygate and its passed (full stealth/invisible) every online test I've tried, yet it scores 'very poor'.

[Andavari]

I'm also skeptical of it. And it would have been nice if they would have compared results of using software-based firewalls vs. hardware-based firewalls. Also when using a hardware-based firewall with a software-based firewall installed.

[Eldmannen]

I remember before when the leak test was announced and BlackIce didn't pass it, and they made a new version that blocked the leaktest process/file so people was led to believe it passed the leak-test when it actually didn't since it was hardcoded to block the leaktest.

 

iptables is firewalling for real men.