Igor Pankov,
Security Insight Author

from Eric Hunt, US

I tend to consider myself safe from internet threats even before I purchased Outpost Firewall Pro after a recommendation from a friend.

Most people don't understand that just having a Virus Scanner isn't enough, and this is where Outpost has saved me several times.

I downloaded some nice looking freeware image editing program from a "website" that I have never been to before. I had a virus scanner (NOD32) and a Spyware scanner so I thought I was safe. After downloading and scanning it with both my virus scanner and spyware scanner I assumed the file was safe. Not true.

After installing and using the software for a short period, an unknown program started to attempt accessing the internet. Outpost immediately informed me of this and asked me what to do. I wrote down the information and blocked all access to the internet for the program. After some research on the internet I couldn't really find any information on it so I didn't think anymore of it, I thought it was just an odd program that came with the software, such as a program update and never thought about it again until the next day when my Anti-Virus finally warned me.

Outpost had found a new Trojan Virus and protected me from it by not allowing it to access the internet to give the Trojan's controller access to my computer and private data.

This has happened several times with Trojans and even some software programs that just like to send a little too much information back to the company that made it. Outpost protected me from it all. I now have 1,050 days left of my license and plan to renew when those days are almost up. There simply is no better protection given in such a user-friendly interface and version 2008 is just a work of art. Many thanks to the development team for such a great product and to tech support for being the best I have ever had the pleasure of dealing with.

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from Brandon Liles, US

I used to frequent numerous IRC (internet relay chat) servers. Some protected me with privacy mod, some didn't.

One day I was bounceing chat room to chat room on one particular server and out of nowhere some one who claimed to be able to terminate anyones connection with DoS or DDoS attacks, (denial of service or distributed denial of service attacks) decided to pick on me.

I told him I didn't frankly care what he could or couldn't do that he could suck my big toe and be done with it.

He hit me for 2 hours strait. thankfully I was running Outpost pro instead of strait blocking the attack which would lag me out and terminate any internet service I had untill the attacks stoped, It filtered the attacks so I was able to sit there laugh at the user, gather as much info on them as I could and report them as well.

All I honestly have to say is THANK you outpost I havent had a single problem since and been protected well and know where my net saftey lays.

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from Lee Morris, UK

I used to get various links to sites via email, which came from either, work colleagues, friends or even relatives, in which they wished to share something with you; as they do. I, like many others, just visited the site in question to see what all the fuss was about. In my ignorance I was unaware that by visiting some sites I could be leaving my system open to abuse by malicious code which was downloaded as part of the website and soon I was getting infected. It was nothing major, just a constant irritant that took some time in ascertaining the problem and finding a working solution.

I used to experience strange occurrences and a decrease in PC performance that soon I was starting to pull my hair out. After many hours and late nights of searching around the registry, combined with using information from reliable informative sites, I soon discovered that my current firewall wasn’t doing its job very well; a solution was required and fast, but where and who to turn to?

Having stored images of my hard drives means I can readily restore my system with little effort, but for many this can mean a whole day wasted installing the OS and then all the updates, patches, etc. I decided to visit various forums and see what other people recommend and the available choice was vast; too vast for my liking. This meant visiting each software website in turn and reading up on their technical spec for the product on offer. The majority of the ‘Big Names’ as Norton, McAfee where all memory intensive and others where far too complicated in setting up and managing that my patience was running out.

Then one day someone – cannot remember who – mentioned Outpost and that this product not only monitors and controls incoming traffic, but the outgoing as well. They also explained in great detail how Trojans etc work, how the majority of people get infected and what action to take to prevent getting infected. That evening I went to Outpost’s website and read up on its products, visited their Forum and decided that further testing was now in order and installing the product.

Before changing to Outpost I used to use; as did many, a version of Zone Alarm Pro. Unbeknown to me ZA only reasonably controlled what was coming in and did very little to what was going out. I downloaded the free version of Outpost – as I wasn’t still sure which make of firewall would suite my needs; then again what were my needs? Many PC users are not that technical to know exactly what they need, let alone configure a firewall.

Once installed I started to play around with the software and soon discovered that it was possible to lock the PC down in such a way that nothing went in or out without permission; I liked that very much. Later on I discovered the ‘Leak Test’ which proved invaluable and so my mind was made up; Outpost had won the day.

To this day I have not been infected or hacked; many thanks to the people of Agnitum for Outpost Pro.

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from Diego A. Luraschi, Switzerland

In the real world, nuclear weapons are feared by everybody: they are terrible weapons of mass destruction.

In my own virtual Internet world I don't fear nuclear weapons at all.

I just enjoy, from time to time, a small window on the lower right corner of my desktop:
"nuke attack blocked ....", by OutpostPro.
It gives me a superb feeling of being safe and secure.

It would be reassuring, if one could enjoy the same situation in the real world too.

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from Phil Davies, UK

I am delighted to have been invited to give testament to what can only be described as the savior to all my security headaches,or,should I say lack of,the past 12months,or there abouts.

My story begins,after installing one of those free security systems that promises to keep all those nasty virus's,and worms from infecting your P.C.

How wrong I was!I booted up my computer on a fine summers day,only to witness a barricade of un-invited activity,infecting the smooth operation of my system.

Not being an expert on the subject,I immedietely summoned my trusty P.C. technician,who advised me that I had been maliciously attacked by a Trojan virus,which had taken control of my e-mail.

I had no idea what was happening,and I can tell you,it simply terrified me.

Identity theft,phising,key logging,you name it,kept me awake for over a week!!

Last August,I recall this happened,and my technician thankfully installed the Agnitum,Outpost Firewall Pro.

Without any doubt whatsoever,I have not had one problem since the installation,and furthermore,I am confident,this is working for me day,and night.

I have no hestitation,to endorse the extremely effective protection I have,at such a realistic fee.

There is simply no need to worry,when the right system is giving you ultimate peace of mind.

I confirm writing this account,freely of my own will,and have accepted no gratuity,in doing so.

If my statement can provide optimn re-assurance to the millions of people using the Web,then it has made me very happy.

Good Luck.

Phil
Davies

United Kingdom.

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from Scott Meinbresse, country unknown

I've always been concerned about the security of my personal information and the safety of my laptops and desktops while on the Internet, but haven't had much success finding a product I like. I've installed products like Zone Alarm and others, only to uninstall them within minutes to hours because of their user "unfriendliness".

I spend a lot of time on the Internet due to online university classes, work related research, and just for fun, so I'm always looking for products that can make this experience more enjoyable and safer. Working in IT and studying it I know very well the vulnerabilities that exist if one assumes I'll never get hit with a virus or attack. I heard about Outpost on a weekly computer show I listen to occasionally on the radio and after a recent "episode" of an attack that HP thinks may have corrupted my wireless network card driver, I decided to give Outpost a try. This recent attack forced me to reformat my hard drive and go through the dreaded task of reloading software, although thank goodness my backup program and a recent clone helped immeasurably.

Outpost was easy to find and from the sites I went to it was well documented as a quality product. Words like "best in class", "360-degree protection", and "automatic detection" sold me on downloading the trial and so far it's been on my laptop longer than any other firewall program to date. Within minutes or less I was notified of potential attacks, attacks in progress, and ways to prevent attackers from accessing my system. So many products miss attacks all together or only let you know one is in progress without solutions to the problem. Outpost notifies me of problems with a visually pleasing pop-up window, recommends how to handle the current and future attacks, and then makes changes to my system to handle those changes. I like knowing someone has taken the time to research the malware, virus, and malicious code problems that are out there and then coming up with easy to understand solutions unlike most programs out there.

I plan on upgrading after my trial period ends based on what I've see of Outpost to this point and want to thank you for coming up with a quality product that's easy to use and understand.

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from Stephanie, Canada

I have been using Outpost Firewall Pro for a few years now and it’s the one of the best Firewall software for power users. It will give you safe configuration right out of the box, despite some other users comments. The beauty about this firewall is that Outpost Pro can further be tweaked by someone more experienced to make the firewall even tighter and even more secure. There are guides on the net that will allow anyone to safely tweak Outpost Pro that little bit further. I am a very happy user of this product, which has been getting very high awards from worldwide PC magazine and online reviews in the last couple of years. Agnitum has just released Outpost 2008 Pro that totally rocks and keeps up the extremely high standards of security. I would strongly recommended Outpost Firewall to anyone who is looking for a better online security. And Outpost Firewall is the one!

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from Eliezer Torres, Germany

Dear Agnitum-Team,

I'm very happy with Agnitum. Since I use this Anti-All-In-One Solution I feel much safer in the Internet. With the Feture Test my Security from Agnitum Outpost Suite Pro. I found out that my last Security Software was NOT Protecting my PC how it supose to.

The Idea of using Plugins to extend the Funktionality of Outpost. Amazed me! :)

And makes my PC a much more Secure Place to be on using Online-Bamking and Shopping.

I have used the Support once since I had Problems on running a Software and the Support team fixed this issue in no time. Plus the Support team is Extreamly Friendly and Ultimate Fast.

But what I like most is the Ease of use. Allready out of the Box Agnitum Outpost Pro protects the PC from CyberCrime.

I Love it. :D

Best regards to all of Agnitum

Eliezer Torres

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from Jason Austin, Australia (Thanks Jason, your story made our day!)

It was early Friday night, I had just cracked my first beer after a long hard week when suddenly the phone rings. Its my brother, the manager of a local pizza shop with panic in his voice 'our computers have been hijacked!'. The situation at the pizza shop had escalated to critical as customers were piling up and their computer systems had come to a grinding halt.

Upon arrival, a crowd of hungry locals gathered in the street outside the over cluttered tiny little pizza shop. There was no time to remove the trojan, we needed the computers that very second or we would be done for!

Outpost!!
It stopped the trojans activity, bought the systems back to normal and gave us as much time as needed to repair the problem later that evening.
NO ONE WENT HUNGRY THAT EVENING!

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from Cristian, Argentina

Hi.

Well, is so hard to start... When i start my life in the internet world, i started to worry to how can i be totally safe. So i tryed all the firewall, anti spaywares all the stuff be to are in the world.

And no of the things that i tryed worked at all.

One day, a frien tells me about Agnitum software. So i enter to the Agnitum home page and download Outpost Firewall Pro. A the first time, it was a good thing, cause the install was fast and the config of it, simple and fast too.

About 1 hour it stoped 800 attemps to my security and a plus, i used the antispayware scan and deleted me too much "crapware".

And thats it. Since 2005 i using Outpost Firewall Pro and still the BEST firewall and antispayware solution for home and it will be for ever!!!!

Thats my little history!.

Bye, Cristian

Ps: Sorry my english, i from Argentina

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