Best Firewall 2016 Professional Technology Support
Best Firewall 2016 Free Firewall Programs

The GlassWire firewall program has an incredibly simple user interface that organizes all of its functions very well.

Best Firewall 2016 Professional Technology Support

Tim Fisher has 30 years professional technology support experience.

He writes troubleshooting content and is the General Manager of Lifewire.

Michael Heine is a CompTIA-certified writer, editor, and Network Engineer with 25 years experience working in the television, defense, ISP, telecommunications, and education industries.

Best Firewall 2016 Free Firewall Programs

Windows has a great built-in firewall, but did you know there are alternative and completely free firewall programs you can install.

Its true, and many of them have easier to use and understand features and options than the one Microsoft has built into its operating system.

Its probably a good idea to check that the built-in Windows Firewall is disabled after installing one of these programs.

You dont need two lines of defense set up togetherthat could actually do more harm than good.

Below are 11 of the best free firewall programs we could find.

The ones at the bottom of this list are therefore less secure, but might still provide what you need.

Comodo Firewall offers virtual Internet browsing, an ad blocker, custom DNS servers, a Game Mode, and a Virtual Kiosk in addition to features to easily block any process or program from leavingentering the network.

We especially appreciate how easy it is to add programs to the block or allow list.

Instead of walking through a long winded wizard to define ports and other options, you can just browse for a program and be done.

However, there are also very specific, advanced settings, if you want to use them.

Comodo Firewall has a Rating Scan option to scan all running processes to show how trustworthy they are.

This is especially useful if you suspect that some kind of malware is running on your computer.

You can also see all your computers running applications and services from this window.

It might also install other Comodo tools on your computer, but you can just remove them later if that happens.

TinyWall is another free firewall program that protects you without displaying tons of notifications and prompts like most other firewall software.

An application scanner is included in TinyWall to scan your computer for programs it can add to the safe list.

Youre also able to choose a process, file, or service manually and give it firewall permissions that are permanent or for a specified number of hours.

You can run TinyWall in Autolearn mode to teach it which programs you want to give network access to so you can open all of them and then shutdown the mode to quickly add all your trusted programs to the safe list.

A Connections monitor shows all the active processes that have a connection to the internet as well as any open ports.

Youre able to right-click any of these connections to abruptly terminate the process or even send it to VirusTotal, among other options, for an online virus scan.

TinyWall also blocks known locations that harbor viruses and worms, protects changes made to Windows Firewall, can be password protected, and can lock down the hosts file from unwanted changes.

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