If you ask a typical gamer what she thinks about her PC firewall, you’d get one answer: firewalls suck. Having constantly to open ports and change configuration makes firewalls really annoying for gamers. It gets especially nasty when you have a sizable collection of games that usually require different port ranges to be opened.

However, since online gaming exposes gamer’s PC to the rapidly growing number of targeted Internet threats, such as viruses and Trojans, one have to get a decent firewall to continue enjoying her favorite games without prolonged and costly interrupts caused by malicious incoming “traffic”.

SteelSecurity, to our knowledge, is the first gamer-specific complete security suite – anti-virus, firewall and a backup utility - allowing online gaming and PC security happily co-exist. It achieves the goal via the use of game profiles. A game profile is simply a collection of anti-virus and firewall settings.

When you launch a recognized game, SteelSecurity automatically modifies firewall settings, opens ports, etc. according to the parameters stored in the game profile. Moreover, SteelSecurity switches to the “game” mode by turning off automatic scans and updates. In this mode the program consumes considerably less system resources, making the game experience as smooth as possible.

SteelSecurity comes with present game profile for most of the popular games (updates available). You can modify the profiles manually, but in our tests - Battlefield 1942 and Counter Strike - we found that the default settings work just fine. Download SteelSecurity.