Firewalls - Any Advice?

Heh, I can't argue against that. Of course, I'm no IT professional so what do I know. :p: You mentioned Keep It Simple Stupid. I remember one of my high school teachers said that. I think it was a chemistry teacher that said that. It wasn't about computers though but I guess the same principle applies.

So, I'm guessing there are tutorials on how to make the most use out of Windows firewall. However, I don't see any recommendations to use Windows firewall except on Microsoft's website. Just something I observed.
 
Yes, the KISS principal is generic and isn't intended to mean anything about an individual by the way, since I apply it to my own PC and those of others I help protect.

Again, your firewall decision relates more to what makes operation easy for you and/or others that use your PC. I can make the Windows Vista firewall work efffectively for inbound protection only on Windows XP, outbound also on Windows Vista, but I wouldn't use it on my non-technical relatives PCs or I'd have to return to configure too often.

Bitman
 
bitman said:
...but I wouldn't use it on my non-technical relatives PCs or I'd have to return to configure too often.

Bitman
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I'll have to agree on that bitman. I really like you "out-of-the box" thinking. I used to have configured ZA Free on my aunt's computer, whom was non-technical. Of course, it didn't really work out as bitman said because it's using sophisticated software by non-technical users. Basically, there were prompts and prompts so I had to reconfigure it for her once in a while.
 
drragostea said:
I used to have configured ZA Free on my aunt's computer, whom was non-technical. Of course, it didn't really work out as bitman said because it's using sophisticated software by non-technical users. Basically, there were prompts and prompts so I had to reconfigure it for her once in a while.
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I see your point. It can become overwhelming for non-technical users.

Well, I decided to stick with Online Armor. I didn't really give it much of a chance, especially since I only got it a few days ago. I'm kind of warming up to it. But that's not the only reason. I read somewhere (don't remember where exactly, maybe it was a thread around here) that ZA interferes with AVG 8 Free.
 
I have not tested Online Armor, but I heard it was good. I'm not so familiar with Online Armor, so I do not plan to use it anytime soon.

I don't recall any problems reported with AVG 8.0 and ZA co-existing (until now? :laugh:). Feel free to describe what happened.
 
I, personally, absolutely love ZoneAlarm. I have had it for over a year now. I use it along with several other security programs and have experienced no problems on either one of my computers (with different anti-virus and anti-spyware on each). My computers even passed the ShieldsUP! test with flying colors (no intrusions).
 
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I have AVG 8.0 Free Edition, AdAware, Spybot, and Spywareblasters oon my computer. So far they work well together. Is there any chance that they could end up conflicting each other. What firewall will be compatible with what I already have on my computer?
 
I hate personal firewalls it always freezes multiplayer games so every time I play (lots everyday) I got to turn it of so i just run through and external firewall

its like this

PC-Lan Switch-Firewall-Router-Internet

I bet there's a name for it but I don't know what its called, but its really good blocks 99% of all the viruses spyware etc...

oh and don't use windows firewall, or any microsoft software for that matter, (I only use windows and that's only because Linux doesn't run my games) and don't use IE USE FIREFOX!!! :FF: as soon as I moved to Firefox from IE I got about 90% less spyware, oh and windows secruity center is useless to, if it doesn't totally AGGRIVATE you then its prolly ok to leave it on, but for a gammer like me NO WAY
 
Hardware firewall?
Tintin said:
I bet there's a name for it but I don't know what its called, but its really good blocks 99% of all the viruses spyware etc...
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If there was such a thing that would block almost everything, past and future too... that'd be awesome.

bitman said that Mozilla Firefox isn't really that 'safer' than Microsoft Internet Explorer, because it can't be exploited using ActiveX usince Firefox doesn't support it. Besides that, I feel that Mozilla Firefox has the extra bells&whistles plus a friendly user interface with community support :o).
Tintin said:
oh and windows secruity center is useless to
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Hope the Security Center isn't useless when malware disables your firewall and anti-virus programs.
 
And FF has some nice addons, like adblock+, flashblock... Block ad servers using right click adblock frame (and strip end of url to block the whole ad.domain.com or ads.adserver.com)...
I always get "Congratulations, no immediate threats found!"...
 
I'm thinking about getting a Mac and I was wondering what the best FREE Anti-Virus, Firewall and Anti Spyware programs are, that are Mac compatible?
 
Comodo

Ok first of all comodo sucks i have installed it multiple times and gotten so many errors the firewall that is built into windows works just fine trust me the only thing u really need is something like Antivir Antivirus and ur good get it its really great and i dont find one problem with it or u can also try green av
 
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