Just like to say a big thanks for another great and wonderful software, this is the best, most stable and friendly firewall I have tried to date. I have pretty much ditched ZoneAlarm Pro, and currently trying out Outpost Pro, through I have tried others like InJoy along the way, but GhostWall is way the best as you can really just set-and-forget.
I'm honestly frustrated with the current generation of firewalls, they are over bloated and full of features I dont want or need, they are unstable and seem to forget the settings, either that or I feel I'm in a constant battle trying to keep control of the settings, I set the settings how I want, when I check back they have been forgotten or changed (
I love GhostWall because its everything they are not, easy to use once you learn about the rules, a joy to use because it remembers the rules and doesnt interfere with them, basically GhostWall is user friendly, theres no wars or battles with the settings, its our lil' friend indeed )
I cant wait for future versions, which comes as a shock, I mean with each version of ZonaAlarm Pro I stopped being excited, I started to hope and pray that it would get better, and now with my lil' GhostWall I'm finally looking forward again to each version actually getting better.......not worse, I really cant wait and see what features will be added next, whatever they will be I'm sure they will be what we need and want, as oppossed to the rest of the pack that have lost their way.
I'm honestly frustrated with the current generation of firewalls, they are over bloated and full of features I dont want or need, they are unstable and seem to forget the settings, either that or I feel I'm in a constant battle trying to keep control of the settings, I set the settings how I want, when I check back they have been forgotten or changed (
I love GhostWall because its everything they are not, easy to use once you learn about the rules, a joy to use because it remembers the rules and doesnt interfere with them, basically GhostWall is user friendly, theres no wars or battles with the settings, its our lil' friend indeed )
I cant wait for future versions, which comes as a shock, I mean with each version of ZonaAlarm Pro I stopped being excited, I started to hope and pray that it would get better, and now with my lil' GhostWall I'm finally looking forward again to each version actually getting better.......not worse, I really cant wait and see what features will be added next, whatever they will be I'm sure they will be what we need and want, as oppossed to the rest of the pack that have lost their way.
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Vanhimmat
Hello, I'm a new member here =) I've worked with most of the popular firewalls out there (and many of the lesser known and/or harder to configure ones). I have used Tiny Personal Firewall, Kerio 2.xx, 8Signs firewall, Jetico (didint work with BitTorrent no matter what I did) as well as the bloatware ones: Zonealarm, Kerio 4.xx, Outpost, Norton, etc
Ghostwall seems like a Godsend in contrast to all of the other bloatware firewall programs out there. It is the most transparent application I have ever seen, congrats on creating a super small footprint firewall which is also easy to understand and configure. There is however a few very strange issues with it that make absolutely no sense to me as to how it could be possible.
I will explain--1st off I use an IP blacklist program called Protowall, which like Ghostwall, uses its own NDIS driver to block unwanted IP addresses. Ghostwall has somehow been letting through *some* packets (UDP.TCP, ICMP, and even IGMP protocol) because with the default settings, I am still getting blocked notices on ports that are closed according to the firewall rules in Ghostwall (like I said default settings).
Incoming packets pass (TCP and UDP) through Ghostwall on the following ports: 6881 (BT), 3166 from various different companies IP addresses (not necessarily consistently the same ones). What is VERY strange is that if a deliberate scan is done by online scanning tools at websites grc.com and also auditmypc.com, both of those ports show up as stealthed. I know that Protowall has NEVER ended up blocking any packets whatsoever when I was not using my PC (i.e. no traffic at all initiated by me) when I had my hardware SPI firewall/router hooked up (I don't have the router atm because it had developed a problem and I had to send it in to get replaced.)
Bottom line is there should be no reason that any packets from any IP address are passing through Ghostwall on ports 6881 and 3166 (I have NOT forwarded them, nor do I have any other firewall or Internet security software installed that might have been causing a conflict--I know what I am doing). I know there are some sophisticated and very advanced portscanning methods, such as those implemented by Nessus or NMAP, which can send many typed of TCP SYN, NULL, Half Open, etc and many many others that perhaps Ghostwall isn't "bulletproof" enough to recognize these as unsolicited, unwanted communication and stop them.
Other than that this looks like it would be a must have firewall provided that what I have mentioned is carefully investigated. If I may offer a humble suggestion in regards to the desire for others to want application control, personally, I would rather have a dedicated, separate application for that. This would provide greater flexibility, providing people with more options if they wanted one program vs. the other, and may result in greater stability being preserved between the two.
Thanks for a great product nonetheless, I hope to see an update to it in the near future.