I'm researching firewalls that might work with Win7 Ultimate. Kerio won't engage in this environment, and I liked the idea that it was watching what went out, not just what came in.

There aren't many firewalls updated to run with Win7, I found only Comodo and AVS; I've used both for antivirus in the past, Comodo was to busy and ponderous, and AVS has a gotcha setup with a free trial but it is a fee software.

I did find this on a search for a Kerio replacement here:

Finally found Kerio 2.1.5 replacemen firewall for Windows 7
I've been using Kerio 2.1.5 for the longest time since W98SE/2000/XP SP3....

I like everything about Windows 7, except Kerio 2.1.5 wouldn't even launch under Windows 7 x64 RC 7100. One of the biggest reason for using Kerio is that I have easy control of outbound rules and I decide what gets out.

After playing with the latest Windows 7 X64 RC 7100, I finally found that I could make the built in firewall to behave like Kerio 2.1.5 with easy control! and the beauty of this is no more searching for 3rd party firewall, one less software to install...hmmm maybe one day MS will have a built in AntiVirus like that of AntiVir and I'm all set!

OK, here is the easy set up of outbound rules in Windows 7. All inbound are automatically protected very well by the default rules, however all outbound are allowed under default, so basically just select NOT to allow any outbound traffic, unless they meet your own rules and from there create new outbound rules (e.g. allow FireFox just by browsing to firefox.exe etc) it's so simple.

That said, I haven't figured out yet how to make the Win7 firewall mimic the Kerio yet. I'll have to poke around in the settings more (I have a little, but mostly just to see what is there before I check any boxes).

Bill D., what OS are you using these days? I have Spybot in this computer, and am running the teatimer. I use Microsoft Forefront Client Security that is available from work (it is on all of the campus computers and they urge employees to use it at home so we don't infect our work computers).

I started this search because a couple of days ago, after a large update from Microsoft, I restarted the computer and after a little while of pages not loading, discovered that my Microsoft Forefront program had been completely removed and my computer had pretty much stopped letting anything come or go. I don't know how that removal happened, but nothing was there to replace it except my MS firewall detected the problem. I went back to my workplace and downloaded and installed it again.

SRS