On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:30:19 +0200, F. Reeware
<F.Reeware-2007@hotmail.com> wrote:

On the "Features" page:

http://www.pctools.com/firewall/features/

And here also:

http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52541

Just updated it on my Vista laptop and it seems to offer a number of
improvements over v3.x. I'm still not willing to give it a full
endorsement because of bundleware issues (Google toolbar and the
in-house product ThreatFire, easily dealt with if you're cautious
during the installation process) and, at least to me, is a bit too
sketchy as far as documentation. It has online help rather than a
locally download file and some features aren't fully explained to my
satisfaction. (There is a forum, but it doesn't appear very active,
and I haven't decided whether I really want to register for email
updates.)

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:15:52 -0500, Ron May <mayron@hotmail.com>
wrote:

More info:

"**Please note that the first login after the installation might take
some time because the firewall is in learning mode and needs to check
every Windows application that attempts to perform suspicious
operations."

That applies to updating from V3.x as well. Stands to reason, though,
since the fw looks at a lot more things.

On balance, if you're already using 3.x, you'll really want the update
and you'll want to go into "Settings > Filtering" and select some of
the newer features. Just be prepared to interact with the program for
a while since it has to learn all over again.

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