Best Firewall for Low Powered PCs

[EchoLynx]

I am in a fix... I have an older laptop that doesn't have a firewall because the newer COMODO Firewall takes more than 4 min to load at startup- WAAAAYYY too bloated.

Does anybody know of a good firewall LIKE COMODO but doesn't hog so many resources at startup/while running??

-Ian

[oracleguy]

How slow of a computer are you talking about here?

[Spookster]

How do you connect to the Internet? Via home network? Public access points?

[sage45]

I'd seriously check this out: http://www.yoggie.com/

-saige-

[EchoLynx]

I'd seriously check this out: http://www.yoggie.com/

-saige-
Woah! Definitely cool- but also out of budget ATM.
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Laptop's stats: (According to PCWizard 2008 (http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php))
Manufacturer : Compaq Computer Corporation
Mainboard : Compaq 07D4h
Chipset : A3/U1 S2K CPU to PCI Bridge
Processor : AMD Athlon XP-M @ 1533 MHz
Physical Memory : 512 MB (2 x 256 DDR-SDRAM )
Video Card : ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1
Hard Disk : IC25N040ATCS04-0 (40 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2102
Monitor Type : 20 inches
Network Card : Realtek Semiconductor RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter
Network Card : Intersil Americas Inc (Was: Harris Semiconductor) PRISM GT 802.11g 54Mbps Wireless Controller
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
DirectX : Version 9.0c
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Normally accessed over a home network with basic router firewall, but that is no reason not to have security as I want to be able to access anywhere.

[Softix]

PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition 3.0.36
Nice interface, easy to navigate and understand, not intrusive. Mainly works silently in the background
Like so many other people, mine failed to update. The support you get when you've downloaded the free version (like with all their products) is atrocious. At the end of the day the answer is, that it solved

[croatiankid]

Try Avast (http://avast.com) 4 free home edition.
If you can afford it though, I'd get Kaspersky Internet Security.

[vidsvids]

Try Avast (http://avast.com) 4 free home edition.
If you can afford it though, I'd get Kaspersky Internet Security.

I use Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 and no problem :)

[EchoLynx]

I use avast!, but that's not a firewall.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

I used to use sygate personal firewall which I think was free. Now though it seems that Norton may have bought out sygate.

[Jeroentje]

If you say i want to be protected at all public areas you will connect towards, but if those are wireless routers and such, there's no real reason to use a firewall.

A basic router with a firewall management function (blocks everything that goes in) will do just fine.