Norton Personal Firewall2005 8.0.0.64

There are numerous types of malware threats that can infect your computer without you or your antivirus solution noticing, so you always need to have a fully functional firewall running on your PC, alongside the security product. Norton Personal Firewall is one of the many such solutions and its user-friendly interface makes it suitable even for those who do not have expert computer skills.

Clever integration with your preferred browser

This way, you can make sure that all apps that connect to the Internet are monitored and approved by yourself, thus ensuring that no malicious apps can communicate with the web and send data about your PC.It integrates within your default browser, thus enabling you to block cookies, ads and popups on each website you are visiting with only a few clicks.Moreover, the app’s functions are grouped in several categories, such as security, intrusion detection, privacy control and ad blocking.

Adjusts options according to your actions

In other words, it efficiently monitors all the apps and processes that try to connect to the Internet, asking for your permission and learning from your responses for the future. It also allows you to adjust its sensitivity level to your liking, while also creating a custom configuration so that it does not become annoying with the many notifications it creates.

Thoroughly customize permissions

Due to Norton Personal Firewall, you can also prevent certain computers from accessing your PC, whereas other devices can be placed in a so-called Trusted Zone, which can come in handy if you often share files with printers or other PCs.When it comes to the privacy control configuration, you can set Norton Personal Firewall to automatically block cookies or display notification whenever your browser sends private information.

To end with

All in all, the software utility can provide you with the required components and modules needed to prevent processes and apps on your PC from connecting to the Internet. However, since it has not been updated in a long time, it does not work properly on newer operating systems.