Since finally I'll be back to having my own computer always connected, I'm researching how the field of software which I didn't need for the past 2 years changed. That means also personal firewalls.
And...I've found some criticism.
For example on Wikipedia article and links from it:
http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1840
Also:
http://www.fefe.de/pffaq/
http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/u...rewall.en.html
All this seems...pretty reasonable to me. Enough that I'm coming into conclusion that using anything other than firewall that's built in recent Windows versions (rather light and "non-bloated" software) seems much more pointless to me than it did up to this point (not that I didn't prefer Windows firewall already...just assumed that there is, perhaps, some 3rd party good one which I haven't tried)
PS. That said, this one sounds interesting...seems it's built on good foundations, light, not very bloated, and apparently with no direct commercial succes in mind...