Vista - 64x Vista firewalls..?

which firewalls work on vista 64bit>?

im testing some using leaktests and comodo failed 60% of tests

This thread will prove useful.

That's unusual and would prompt me to think that you don't have Comodo setup properly or are using the Leak tests in the wrong way.
Matousec Firewall Testing has the most comprehensive testing suite to check firewalls (intrusion, leak, performance, etc) and Comodo is the highest ranked Free firewall at 95% (10+).
Many leak tests are also easily subverted simply by another program's network rules too so you have to be careful when using Leak tests without following a strict ruleset. I have tested Comodo myself in it's default state and found that it caught every attempt to circumvent the system and all leak attempts were stopped and the user prompted for action. I used to decompile and analyze unknown malware for AV and AntiMalware companies so I know how to configure the tests properly, I also know that many users don't use them properly (leak tests) too and get skewed results because of that.

I suggest you pop into the Comodo User Forums and chat with some of the folks there about the problems you're having with Comodo. They'll help you find out what you're doing wrong to get these failures on simple leak tests.

I never got comodo set up wrong at all - default settings like most users have it..
I used 10 of the 26 tests from Firewall Leak Tester and it failed 6 of them

its probably those tests running in 64-bit Vista thats the problem but some did get past when the firewall said it blocked it... I tested Webroot aswell and got about the same result..?

according to http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests.php
comodo is 2nd worst firewall u can have and Jetico , Kaspersky & Outpost are the best - its outdated by about 2 years by the looks of it

That survey is 2 years old. Kaspersky has pretty much fallen way down that list. And while Jetico is a good firewall, it will drive you nukin futs.

Comodo is the only way to go really. That or Vistas firewall, which is really quit good.

Yea Comodo right now is the best firewall for 64 bit right now, hopefully Online armor and Outpost will have something out for 64 bit soon....

Hi snadge

Try Matousec for your firewall info. They have the most comprehensive testing suite used and update it constantly. The results page may change your opinion on some products.
And that info you linked is far too old to be useful, many product updates have occurred since then and these results are no longer valid. The Comodo version tested there was 1.1.00 which is WAYYYY old, as we are at version 3.5.54375.427 right now, and those test results were for W2K and XP....terribly outdated info.
Also they incorrectly worked simply with Leak tests and that's only a small portion of what a good firewall should do.

I've said it before, and it's worth iterating... The matousec site is charging the companies to run full tests on software. It means that they do NOT run the same battery of tests on everything. That makes the information unreliable and biased, as they benefit from tweaking the results to make paying "customers" look better...

While this company does make money varius ways the outcome of these tests are real and accurate.... Some firewalls have more built in features than others and will do better than other firewalls with less built in features,, they explain this on the website, maybe in different words than mine but they are explained



Here is a quote from their site on the paid version that the do for the vendor, that the vendor must pay for.....

"Every vendor has a right to request a paid Firewall Challenge testing, in which case its product will be tested in all levels regardless the results on each of the level"


I dont think they are perfect but imo one of the best firewall test sites out there atm... They treat every firewall the same regardless of their features that could be the only negative thing i can think of them, but is that really negative?

Take any one of their high rated Firewalls and try them, I dont think anyone would be dissapointed...... personally i did not make my decision based on Matousec site for using a firewall, I read security forums like castecops and wilders and kinda got a idea what the majority of people there recomended and where liking and made my decision based on that.....


I will have to disagree about the info being unreliable and biased, regardless if a vendor pays or recieves the data for free the results are not unreliable.....

I dont think this site is the Holly Grail, but they are very informative to anyone wanting info on Firewalls

all compare sites are like that nowadays and its wrong really - for e.g. shopping for cheap car insurance with an online go-compare didnt have the cheapest company on their database which was CHURCHILL -