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Once you enter Entertainment mode, which can be automatically triggered once certain applications are launched, you can enjoy full-screen gaming or movie watching without being interrupted by Outpost. Over spring break I installed Counter-Strike: Source (an old but great FPS game) on my mom's computer, only to be annoyed to discover when I went full-screen the Windows firewall popped up and eventually froze CS:S. Entertainment mode is definitely a welcomed feature in Outpost Pro.

One of the largest pet peeves of firewall software is the certain connections to be made. After a while, most firewalls "learn" what connections are okay to make and tend to bug you less often with allow or deny requests. Outpost Pro gets around this by including predefined rules for known applications, in addition to something I really like, Entertainment mode.

And even if malware finds its way onto the system, it won't be able to transfer any data out of the network because the ID block function lets you define and lock down blocks of text, preventing them from being removed from the machine by any electronic means Г Ђ\вІ IM, web access or email correspondence.

However, I'll be taking a look at a firewall that I haven't heard of until recently, Agnitum's Outpost Firewall Pro. Outpost is more than just a firewall, of preventing data theft whereby a malware application can utilize personal information from another application. Outpost Pro's data theft prevention is part of its privacy feature set aimed at curbing identity theft. That alone is rather captivating.

An accurate representation of the unsecure nature of the Windows firewall.

It's a rather well-known fact that Microsoft's attempts at integrating a top-notch firewall into their operating systems have come up short. If their integrated "firewall" was any good, they wouldn't have made it so easy to disable it to use a real firewall and would have kept with Microsoft monopoly tradition making it impossible to disable. One of the most popular firewall solutions for Windows has always been .

Disclosure: This is another one of those paid-reviews-trying-to-pay-off-tuition things.

Review: Outpost Firewall Pro — PaulStamatiou.com