Tiny - Personal Firewall Review

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Reviewed by: Paul Schmehl
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/

Tiny Personal Firewall

Brief Summary:

Tiny Personal Firewall is a well written product. When you install it it will prompt you for "trusted networks" if you have networked machines in your home. Each time you use a "new" application, it will prompt you to approve its use and generate a checksum so that if the program was ever altered, Tiny would prompt you again. (It even prompts for itself when you update it.) Alerts are easy to understand and several options are offered, including permit or deny the single request or write a rule, which can be customized for one IP or one port or generalized for a service or port.

Price:

$39.00

Pros:

install is very easy
small memory footprint
interface is easy to understand and use
configuring "new" services is very easy
Cons:

If M@ilDefense is in use, email won't function at all (this is probably not Tiny's fault)

Paul L. Schmehl
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
Supervisor, Support Services
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member