Lavasoft Personal Firewall was designed for small and medium-sized business organizations and home users, providing seamless and powerful protection for both. Lavasoft Personal Firewall product comes with simple configuration, "tick in the box" options and powerful, easy to use controls.

Lavasoft Personal Firewall provides the critical protection you need to keep your PC safe from unauthorized access. It is the ultimate security shield against hackers, keyloggers, Trojans and other malicious attempts to access data on your PC, while remaining simple, and easy to use.

Here are some key features of "Lavasoft Personal Firewall":

· Host protection - proactively monitors and blocks even the most sophisticated attempts to steal your data, preventing zero-day attacks and safeguarding against botnets, rootkits, and other cyber threats.

· Web control - ensures firewall cannot be deactivated by targeted attacks.

· Extended monitoring - For more advanced user, this feature allows additional control of inappropriate application behavior and provides more customizable protection.

· Network activity monitor - gives you the ability to close down any unauthorized connections with other PCs.

· Stealth mode technology - conceals access ports and makes sure your PC is invisible on the Internet, so that you can surf the web privately.

· Adaptive Firewall Rules - automatically changes your security settings to suit your personal needs.

· Entertainment Mode - allows you to enjoy movies or games online, without getting interrupted by firewall prompts, while still maintaining maximum security.

· Auto-learning mode - When the program is first started, a special learning mode is run and your typical activities are recorded. This is done to reduce the number of alerts requiring a response.

· ConnectNet - this feature is a voluntary configuration system put in place to save users' time and provide additional security by collecting, approving and redistributing commonly used rule sets among users.

· SmartAdvisor - helps you make the right decision when customizing your individual requirements.

· Full Vista and 64-bit platform support

· Powerful protection - low on resources


Requirements:

· Processor
450 MHz CPU (x-86/x-64/multi-core)
· Free hard disk space
100 MB
· Minimum RAM
256 MB
· Email protocols & Services
POP3, SMTP, IMAP


Limitations:

· 30 day trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Powerful leak prevention technology recognizes and blocks all known methods for stealing your personal information
· Self-protection mode ensures your firewall protection will not be shut down by viruses, Trojans, spyware or even keystroke simulations
· Entertainment mode allows you to play games or watch movies online without being interrupted by firewall pop-up messages
· Enhanced usability gives advanced users the ability to manually create individualized adaptive rules
· Windows 64-bit operating systems are now supported