{"id":33638,"date":"2012-06-19T20:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T20:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=33638"},"modified":"2012-06-19T20:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T20:21:33","slug":"daves-computer-tips-brilliantly-simple-added-pc-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/daves-computer-tips-brilliantly-simple-added-pc-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave&#8217;s Computer Tips: Brilliantly Simple-Added PC Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tinywall.jpg\" alt=\"added security for your pc\" title=\"added security for your pc\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33655\" \/><\/p>\n<p>by Jim Hillier in Daves Computer Tips<\/p>\n<h3><em>Tinywall \u2013 The best thing since sliced bread?<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Around 3 or 4 months ago, following its initial release, a new security freeware called TinyWall created quite a flurry of interest. I was just one of many who were drawn by TinyWall\u2019s concept of delivering simple yet effective firewall controls. However, after installing and testing the debut version it soon became apparent that, while the basic premise was intact, the initial hype was probably a tad premature \u2013 the software was still a little raw and immature.<\/p>\n<p>At that time I contacted the developer, Karoly Pados, and he openly admitted that TinyWall was somewhat underdone, in fact he was surprised that so many download sites had actually listed his freeware and by the intensity of interest in general. Karoly asked me to hold off on a review until such times as he released an updated version. Well my friends, after months of refinement and improvements, TinyWall 2.0 has finally arrived!! DCT readers are the very first to receive the news and it pleases me to no end to report that TinyWall 2.0 entirely lives up to expectations and delivers on all its early promise\u2026 and then some.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, exactly what is TinyWall and why has it created such a stir? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TinyWall is not a stand-alone firewall, it\u2019s designed  to augment, harden and control the existing Windows Firewall in Vista and Windows 7. TinyWall offers an entirely different concept to traditional 3rd party firewalls \u2013 simplicity and ease of use \u2013 yet loses nothing in terms of efficacy. Karoly has explained it better than I ever could, so I quote from the TinyWall site:<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davescomputertips.com\/2012\/06\/tinywall-the-best-thing-since-sliced-bread\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt is shared with permission from davescomputertips.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tinywall.jpg\" alt=\"added security for your pc\" title=\"added security for your pc\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33655\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Tinywall is not a new firewall, but a new take on adding a simple and effective GUI to the existing Windows Firewall. Have a look, I think you\u2019ll find this is a good addition to your computer \u201carsenal\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-33638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daves-computer-tips","tag-computer-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brilliantly Simple Added Security for Your PC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tinywall is not a new firewall, but a new take on adding a simple and effective GUI to the existing Windows Firewall. 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