Top 15 Firestarter Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Firestarter is an Open Source visual firewall program. The software aims to combine ease of use with powerful features, therefore serving both Linux desktop users and system administrators.

We strongly believe that your job is to make the high level security policy decisions and ours is to take care of the underlying details. This is a departure from your typical Linux firewall, which has traditionally required arcane implementation specific knowledge.

1. Gufw

Gufw Gufw is an easy, intuitive way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or individual ports port(s), and many others! Gufw is powered by Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw).......

2. Sygate Personal Firewall

Sygate Personal Firewall Sygate Personal Firewall is a bit old but good firewall for Windows. It uses very small amount of system resources and is quite robust. The project is now abandoned because Symantec Corporation, on October 10, 2005, acquired Sygate Technologies, so Sygate Personal Firewall has been replaced by an advanced "Smart......

3. OpenVPN Gui

OpenVPN Gui OpenVPN is a full-featured SSL VPN solution which can accomodate a wide range of configurations, including remote access, site-to-site VPNs, WiFi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls.OpenVPN is normally run in a console window, which can be a little annoying to have lying......

4. Firelet

Firelet Firelet is a centralized firewall management tool for small and medium scale environments. It supports Linux-based firewall nodes.......

5. Core Force

Core Force CORE FORCE is a free comprehensive endpoint security solution for Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems. CORE FORCE provides inbound and outbound stateful packet filtering for TCP/IP protocols using a Windows port of OpenBSD's PF firewall, granular file system and registry access control and programs' integrity validation. These capabilities can......

6. Padvish EndPoint Security

Padvish EndPoint Security Padvish Antivirus End-Point Security Edition is actually a combination of a good antivirus with firewall features and device control has provided a higher level of security.......

7. BitDefender TrafficLight

BitDefender TrafficLight TrafficLight intercepts and scans web traffic before it even reaches the browser, effectively blocking disguised or stealth attacks before it's too late. It works with virtually any browser, and even keeps the look, feel and functionality consistent if you switch browsers.TrafficLight scans the pages you visit for malware and phishing......

8. Guarddog

Guarddog Guarddog is a firewall configuration utility for Linux systems. Guarddog is aimed at two groups of users. Novice to intermediate users who are not experts in TCP/IP networking and security, and those users who don't want the hastle of dealing with cryptic shell scripts and ipchains/iptables parameters.......

9. netfilter

netfilter Netfilter software comprises iptables, ipset, conntrack-tools, libnetfilter and more. It is the core of Linux firewalls and NAT. It consists of a set of hooks inside the Linux kernel and a number of utilities to manage callback functions.......

10. Shorewall

Shorewall The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as “Shorewall”, is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables, iptables-restore, ip and tc utilities, Shorewall configures Netfilter and the Linux......

11. DroidWall

DroidWall DroidWall - Android Firewall is a front-end application for the powerful iptables Linux firewall. It allows you to restrict which applications are permitted to access your data networks (2G/3G and/or Wi-Fi).This is the perfect solution if you don't have an unlimited data plan, or just wants to see your battery......

12. Murus Firewall

Murus Firewall Murus is a frontend for the OS X PF network firewall. From basic filtering to advanced proactive options, Murus allows to easily configure a complex network setup dragging and dropping icons and moving sliders and selecting checkboxes.......

13. encfs4win

encfs4win This is an experimental project of porting encfs to the Windows world. UseFirst timeinstall required Dokan library;Extract executable (or compile by your own). Every useopen a windows commandlaunch "encfs " where crypt_dir is crypted directory while plain_dir is the directory where you can access not crypted files.NOTE: Windows 7......

14. FortKnox Firewall

FortKnox Firewall FortKnox Firewall is personal firewall solution that allows you to protect a PC against hacker attacks, trojans, spyware and internet threats. It has built-in Intrusion Prevention System and SPI technologies for extended user protection. It gives user complete overview of all inbound and outbound network communication in an intuitive user......

15. HeatShield

HeatShield HeatShield is a network firewall management service for Linux servers. A firewall configured by HeatShield prevents unauthorized access to services running on your servers, such as SSH and MySQL. Using HeatShield, you can easily restrict access to these services so that only IP addresses you trust are allowed to communicate......