While browsing the web for some important activity, or processing some financial activity, online theft of data remains a prominent concern for most web users. That apart the probability of virus attacks or other malicious intrusions routed through compromised websites are very pronounced these days. In this situation, you can’t simply go and correct or stop such malicious websites, but you can make your system protected enough so that it could withstand such data theft. Along the same line, you can try out Personal Internet Filter 1.0. The utility supports monitoring the incoming and outgoing data to save your personal information from hackers and data thieves. The application supports different functions such as filtering incoming and outgoing data, monitoring the TCP connection, searching ads cache, and blocking unwanted site, ads, and local or remote ports.

Personal Internet Filter 1.0 is a small utility that monitors internet activities and protects your system from harmful intrusions. It provides you with different features placed at the toolbar, and you can work making selections from there. It has the capability to stop Pop-up ads, Animated Flash ads, Timer ads, Floating ads, and remove the Web Bugs. The Active Ports display the Host Address, Local Port, Remote Port, Status and Time Stamp info at the mid screen. Using the Filter feature, you can easily add the Remote Address, Remote Port and Local Port into the list, and block them if required. It’s easier to save the alterations made to Filter selections and Load the defaults, whenever required. The Log features provides information relating to Host Address, and Ports, while giving you the ability to mark/unmark listening ports, connected ports, blocked connections, and no DNS name, using the ‘Logging Options’. With the ‘Ads Cache’, you can check any webpage for ads by entering its URL, then click Check Ads and you would be shown the ads details. The application enables you to active all ports, resolve IP address, set the Filter and Notifier ON, along with the feature to Log On/Off, as needed.

Personal Internet Filter 1.0 keeps a complete check over the website, URLs, for safeguarding your system from bugs, annoying advert pop-ups, etc. For its overall performance in applying effective protection, the program has deservingly been assigned with 3.5 rating points.