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New tests added to SSTS and FWC

2008-05-06T12:42:18Z

We have implemented three new tests and added them to Security Software Testing Suite (SSTS) and also to Firewall Challenge (FWC). There are two new performance tests, PerfTCP and PerfUDP, that measure the impacts of using personal firewall on the network performance. The last new test is called SockSnif and it tests the protection against unwanted packet sniffing. Firewall Challenge now contains 73 tests.

In past few weeks, we have focused on implementation of new tests. In upcoming weeks, we will focus more on testing again.

Online Armor recommendation

2008-05-02T18:09:02Z

We have joined Tall Emu's affiliate program and so you can now buy commercial versions of Online Armor Personal Firewall through our pages and thus support our Firewall Challenge project.

ShadowHook and keylogger tests to Firewall Challenge

2008-04-24T19:40:43Z

We have implemented seven new keylogger tests to Security Software Testing Suite and together with ShadowHook we have added them to Firewall Challenge. We have 70 tests in the system of Firewall Challenge now. Newly tested products as well as new versions of already tested products are always tested against all the tests in the system on levels that they reach.

Firewall Challenge recommendations

2008-04-20T15:16:49Z

Firewall Challenge revealed several notable security products. We have decided to recommend the best products to you via affiliate programs of their vendors. Every product that scores at least 80% in the challenge and thus receives our mark of Very good or Excellent Protection level may become a recommended product. We contact the vendors of such products in order to join their affiliate programs. The vendors that agree and provide us the necessary technical instruments will be linked from the result page of Firewall Challenge.

What does it mean for end users? If you like Firewall Challenge, you can help us and support this project by buying one of the recommended products through the links in Firewalls' ratings table. To get more information about how does it work, please read How you can help us paragraph on the index page of Firewall Challenge.

We start our recommendations with affiliate programs of Agnitum Ltd. and Kaspersky Lab. If you are going to buy any of their products or prolong your license, you can help us by doing so through our links. In the next weeks we will try to join affiliate programs of vendors of other great products tested in Firewall Challenge.

ShadowHook

2008-04-14T12:26:25Z

We are happy to publish the second version of BSODhook utility codenamed ShadowHook. The original version supported the native SSDT calls only, the new version adds support for the GDI SSDT calls. We have also made BSOShook a separate project with its own project web page.

FWC update

2008-04-06T13:09:46Z

We have tested eight more products in Firewall Challenge. System Safety Monitor confirmed its qualities, Norton Internet Security 2008 was significantly worse, but still better than AVG Internet Security, FortKnox Personal Firewall 2008, iolo Personal Firewall, Look 'n' Stop 2.06, PC Tools Firewall Plus and Rising Personal Firewall that failed completely.

Rules update and FAQ in FWC

2008-04-01T11:58:24Z

We have added two new rules to Firewall Challenge to improve its quality and we have also created a FAQ page. If you have any questions related to Firewall Challenge, please consult its FAQ first.

Firewall Challenge

2008-03-18T23:15:00Z

We have not updated our website for a long time, we have received many of emails asking for new tests, results and updates. Today, we present new projects called Firewall Challenge and Security Software Testing Suite to you and hope that it was worth waiting.