Best lightweight vista firewall

J273 · 18 Jul 2007 at 19:43

Sorry i know this may of been asked a bazillion times

but im just about to upgrade to vista....Ive always used on my xp system sygate and nod32.

Nod32's now vista compatible.Im just now on the lookout for a decent lightweight firewall.

I dont trust vista inbuilt firewall....so really looking for a 3rd party app

can anyone recommend me a decent lor resorce firewall please

Thanks

UnusualSuspect · 18 Jul 2007 at 20:06

Actually, the Vista firewall is really good, especially if you go into Administrative Tools and play with Advanced Security options. Far far better than the built in XP firewall. I use that, so I can't recommend anything.

Frank_Rizzo · 18 Jul 2007 at 20:13

Comodo could be the best free firewall for vista when that version is released.

For now try Kerio. Does the job - easy to configure.

Dead Dog · 18 Jul 2007 at 20:29

UnusualSuspect said:
Actually, the Vista firewall is really good, especially if you go into Administrative Tools and play with Advanced Security options. Far far better than the built in XP firewall. I use that, so I can't recommend anything.

what sort of settings do you want to play with to get best protection?
same boat as OP just gone vista and i'm thinking of firewalls & av.

was last using comodo w/XP didn't like it i seemed to be constantly reminding it what to allow (yes i was ticking the 'remember' box

) and zone alarm before that, no probs.

Elevon · 18 Jul 2007 at 20:39

J273 said:
Sorry i know this may of been asked a bazillion times

but im just about to upgrade to vista....Ive always used on my xp system sygate and nod32.

Nod32's now vista compatible.Im just now on the lookout for a decent lightweight firewall.

I dont trust vista inbuilt firewall....so really looking for a 3rd party app

can anyone recommend me a decent lor resorce firewall please

Thanks

I agree Vista has a very good firewall,personally I use Vista's firewall with my hardware firewall in my router,can't really get better then that

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J273 · 18 Jul 2007 at 20:47

so with the vista firewall....does it ask upon outbound connections trying to access the net?

hohum · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:57

If you go into administrative tools you can set it to alert on outbound connections. By default, it only alerts on incoming connections.

marc2003 · 19 Jul 2007 at 02:31

J273 said:
so with the vista firewall....does it ask upon outbound connections trying to access the net?

no it doesn't prompt you at all. you have to manually configure everything. this puts a lot of people off it....

and i don't even bother with outbound protection. my router blocks me from the outside world and that's good enough for me.

marc2003 · 19 Jul 2007 at 02:33

hohum said:
If you go into administrative tools you can set it to alert on outbound connections. By default, it only alerts on incoming connections.

can you do that? i didn't think you could. where is the option?

Nebzor · 19 Jul 2007 at 03:39

marc2003 said:
no it doesn't prompt you at all. you have to manually configure everything. this puts a lot of people off it....

and i don't even bother with outbound protection. my router blocks me from the outside world and that's good enough for me.

You mean it blocks unrequested external connections. You have no protection if someone plays some script games on your PC and requests them.