Firewall For Vista

krusty83uk · 4 Aug 2008 at 23:33

Hello,

I just made the move 2 vista this weekend on my Desktop. I was wondering if any1 can recommend me a good free firewall. I hear zone alarm is rubbish on vista

Thanks

Russell

goujon945 · 4 Aug 2008 at 23:34

Well if you go the torrent route you can get anything otherwise i found comodo to be pretty good

Burnsy2023 · 4 Aug 2008 at 23:50

Why not just use the Windows Firewall?

Burnsy

goujon945 · 4 Aug 2008 at 23:55

Tbh i haven't got much faith in the windows firewall, the XP firewall was a pos and why risk just using the Vista one when others are free?

Burnsy2023 · 4 Aug 2008 at 23:57

goujon945 said:
the XP firewall was a pos?

How so?

The XP one was actually very good but had the flaw of not having control of outgoing connections. The Vista firewall doesn't have this problem.

Burnsy

goujon945 · 5 Aug 2008 at 00:11

Im not going to lie, im not an expert on firewalls. I just know that i had a few malware issues when running just the OS firewall. Nothing major but these issues stopped when i added a firewall recommended by a friend (Zone Alarm). Im just saying that why take the risk when the software is free? And tbh does anyone really trust microsoft anymore!

Burnsy2023 · 5 Aug 2008 at 00:13

goujon945 said:
And tbh does anyone really trust microsoft anymore!

Why shouldn't we?

As long as you have UAC enabled, plus defender and the Windows Firewall, you'll need to be quite the n00b to get any malware.

Burnsy

goujon945 · 5 Aug 2008 at 00:24

Okay i will concede to your greater knowledge regarding windows firewalls! But surely no harm can be done by downloading a free firewall just in case?

In the interest of full disclosure i don't trust OSX of Linux either, i have trust issues! Also how long does n00b status last?

Burnsy2023 · 5 Aug 2008 at 00:29

goujon945 said:
Okay i will concede to your greater knowledge regarding windows firewalls! But surely no harm can be done by downloading a free firewall just in case?

I don't see the point personally, the Windows one is fine or all but the most nervous, but it's a bit of an arbitrary decision.

Burnsy

Ratbag · 5 Aug 2008 at 08:06

Comodo firewall works on Vista and its free and good. Only it can pop up loads of alerts if you run the defence+ component, so I'd switch it off.

GraemeUK · 5 Aug 2008 at 09:17

goujon945 said:
i don't trust OSX of Linux either, i have trust issues!

Oh dear.

This might come in useful too, just to be extra safe:

bledd · 5 Aug 2008 at 09:25

krusty83uk said:
I hear zone alarm is rubbish on vista

you're half right,

it's rubbish on everything

just buy a router, and use the windows firewall

Ratbag · 5 Aug 2008 at 09:57

If outbound filtering is important to you I'd use a 3rd party firewall - vista firewall outbound filtering is flaky and half baked to say the least (well, it was - it may have improved with updates - mines been switched off since day one!)

greeny_fastcar · 5 Aug 2008 at 10:09

Burnsy2023 said:
Why shouldn't we?

As long as you have UAC enabled, plus defender and the Windows Firewall, you'll need to be quite the n00b to get any malware.

Burnsy

I love your responces Burnsy.

But he is right UAC enabled, defender enabled with the windows firewall and a little common sense while browsing you should be fine.