It would be far better to recommend a product that has been fully tested with Windows XP Service Pack 3 which came out in 2008, six years later. So why in 2019 are you recommending a product like this? Windows Firewall was first released in Windows XP SP2 which may have been why R-Firewall was abandoned. One of the products, R-Firewall, was discontinued before XP Service Packs SP2 and SP3, and maybe even SP1, were released. Of course, being a discontinued product does not automatically make them bad products but the article should at least have a much stronger warning about the potential for compromised security. They are easy to find because the download links are from download sites. Six of the ten applications are discontinued software that no longer have bug fixes or active support. Some of the products fail basic firewall tests, e.g. The article has serious issues that should be remedied because it can lead users to compromise the security of their Windows systems by installing firewall software that is less secure than the default Windows Firewall. But it looks like the update was link checks without updating the actual content of the article. I read the LifeWire article 10 Free Firewall Programs: A list of the best free firewall programs for Windows because it was updated earlier this month. FYI, here’s the content of an email I’ve just now sent to I’m posting it here as a warning but also because the article ignores GlassWire version 1 which would be one of the better options.
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