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| Thread ID: 95546 | 2008-12-10 01:24:00 | Good, free, No-fuss firewall. | esayolay (13857) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 727264 | 2008-12-10 01:24:00 | Preferably not comodo as it is always nagging at you about what to do :thanks |
esayolay (13857) | ||
| 727265 | 2008-12-10 01:26:00 | Preferably not comodo as it is always nagging at you about what to do :thanks I'm using Zone Alarm 5.9 on XP. Goes fine, not much fuss once it is setup. |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 727266 | 2008-12-10 01:28:00 | I'm using the free Windows XP or Vista one on all my machines. Never had a problem with anything :cool: |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 727267 | 2008-12-10 01:29:00 | I'm using sygate personal firewall Its quite old, but unlike antivirus, they don't need to be updated with definitions. Sygate doesn't bloat the computer and it only asks you when programs attempt to access the internet. In my experience, the XP firewall doesn't ask you if things should access the internet, it just lets them. Which is a bit useless... |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 727268 | 2008-12-10 01:35:00 | Don't take this as professional gospel, but I don't (and never have done) use a software firewall, and I've never had a virus/spyware infection. If you have a good A/V and spyware apps on your PC, all the firewall options enabled on your router, and maybe a virtual PC for the times when you need to find fonts, look at porn, or download *cough* apps *cough* (or perhaps do all three at the same time). I also don't use p2p software, and I lock down any bittorrent software I'm using to restrict access to my machine. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 727269 | 2008-12-10 01:40:00 | A firewall blocks things coming in, and just as importantly, blocks things going out. A firewall is the only surefire way of blocking a trojan. Antivirus and spyware rely on heuristics and signatures and if the trojan has been smartly coded, it will get around those. But it will have to access the internet at some point, which is where your firewall comes in. What do you mean by 'lock down' bit torrent software? |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 727270 | 2008-12-10 01:59:00 | A firewall blocks things coming in, and just as importantly, blocks things going out. A firewall is the only surefire way of blocking a trojan. Antivirus and spyware rely on heuristics and signatures and if the trojan has been smartly coded, it will get around those. But it will have to access the internet at some point, which is where your firewall comes in. What do you mean by 'lock down' bit torrent software? I guess what I'm getting at is that a firewall suffers from the same inherent flaw as Vista's UAC - most people get sick of answering endless popups about allowing access, and a large percentage of people wouldn't understand what they mean anyway. As a result they just blindly click 'Allow', and before you know it, they're pretty much rolled out the red carpet to trojans etc. A good A/V app will intercept things before they're downloaded, and not allow you to download them (or at least warn you they're infected). And Kaspersky's detection of in-the-wild virus's is pretty good. Like I said, it's not my professional opinion, just what works for me. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 727271 | 2008-12-10 02:21:00 | Online Armour. | pctek (84) | ||
| 727272 | 2008-12-10 03:13:00 | Your router firewall should be sufficient, make sure thats enabled. Whats this stuff about Comodo nagging you? |
Blam (54) | ||
| 727273 | 2008-12-10 03:21:00 | If it didnt nag, it wouldnt be a firewall Thats why its called a firewall. If it didnt ask, you wouldnt know |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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