It may be enough for most users on this planet, but not enough for my personal needs. JPF never slowed down anything for me. I just need a highly configurable firewall, and Jetico has proven its worth to me uncountable times in the past 4 years. Would've it worked without problems on Windows 8, this thread would not be. I am currently re-exploring what Agnitum Outpost Firewall has to offer, but I'm not sure it works with Windows 8 yet.
Had you check with the JPF Developer about your problems? That would be the first to do! MS could not hold responsible in any means for some 3.party software problems! And also not blame in any means.
Tried to, but seems that there's nobody around in their forums. And yeah, of course it's not Windows 8's fault. I haven't blamed the OS, I just said that Jetico doesn't work on it, so I need to find something as close as possible to JPF. It seems that Agnitum Outpost Firewall's driver isn't compatible with Windows 8 x64 either, so I'll keep looking.
Emsisoft Internet Security (Anti-malware / Online-Amor) works perfect with Win8 (maybe the best Security solution at the Moment).
COMODO Internet Security 5.12(win 8 support), but COMODO Internet Security 6.0 BETA Released today, Windows XP through Windows 8 are supported !
Yes, that is best at the moment. Here are two commands to configure it: C:\Windows\System32\WF.msc C:\Windows\System32\Firewall.cpl ...if you want to make the shortcuts or something.
From all I have tested lately, Comodo Firewall comes closest to my needs, but it still lacks a bunch of features, like application group nesting, rule disabling (it only lets you remove, but not enable/disable rules on the fly), it has only the basic allow/deny/ask type of rules (it is missing the "continue" rule which allows for advanced selective traffic monitoring), and the firewall pop-up GUI is simply a disaster: it doesn't allow you to copy the remote IP (I'm not asking for a WHOIS check, just to copy the damn IP so I can check it myself before deciding what rule to create), doesn't allow for rule customization in-place (i.e. I have to set the granularity by accessing additional interface components), doesn't have a go-to-source-rule button so I can see which ask rule raised the firewall event, and the popus aren't customizable (and that wouldn't be a problem, but they display way too little information). I could go on, but can you imagine that this COMODO firewall is still the closest solution to my needs? This pretty much means that most of the other solutions are useless for someone who wishes to really have control (in a fast and decent way) over what's happening on the network. I must admit JPF isn't perfect, but only if the developers continued to enhance it and listen to user requests, it could've easily become the most powerful and advanced firewall ever. Sigh...