Need a good free firewall for windows7 64Bit

[foster grant]

ok so ive been using comodo internet security ...But for some reason its seems to be playing games ie saying it cant be found ?...so i dumped it ..then when i tried to reinstall it ...it comes up with an error code 1603 ?....and wont install ....so i need a firewall a free one would be good ...can any one help me out please ???


also my Firefox is playing up too...ie its very very slow to come up when i click the desk top icon

 

[Dano]

You already have one, it was installed with windows.

 

[foster grant]

well yes thats true....but i dont use the windows one

 

[JRS]

So what's actually wrong with the built-in Windows one?

also my Firefox is playing up too...ie its very very slow to come up when i click the desk top icon

What addons do you have installed? One of them could be slowing it up.

 

[Mr Blonde]

well yes thats true....but i dont use the windows one

It's decent enough for most people. You can have more control over it by using something like Windows Firewall Control : http://binisoft.org/download/wfc.exe
or Windows Firewall Notifier : http://wokhan.online.fr/progs.php?sec=WFN

Some other decent free firewalls might be - Private Firewall, Online Armor and Outpost.

 

[foster grant]

ok thank you


just tried to install Online Armor and it wont install at all....just says " can not start Online Armor "...outpost i used to use that on Vista...but it would never run on windows7


i think i might just re-install windows all together lol

 

[Dunks]

The firewall that comes with Windows 7 is all you'll ever need to use.

 

[ShakenNstirred]

the windows firewall and the one in your router are all you really need

 

[InertProtocol]

the windows firewall and the one in your router are all you really need

This, a million times over.

Unless there's a reason why you don't think this is sufficient?.

 

[monkeyspank]

If you want a nice GUI to help configure the Windows firewall then this works well
http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/

You can set it to block everything until you give things permission as and when they try and access the network.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

You already have one, it was installed with windows.

well yes thats true....but i dont use the windows one

Nothing wrong with the windows one. It's fluid, dynamic n brilliant.

 

[Orcvader]

+1. Am using the default Windows one with no problems.

 

[opethdisciple]

Comodo personal firewall.

 

[Muel]

The standard windows one doesn't give you the option to block certain programs from accessing the internets does it?

I need this, so I use Zone Alarm. Seems very lightweight and does the job.

 

[JRS]

The standard windows one doesn't give you the option to block certain programs from accessing the internets does it?

Yes, it does. Advanced Settings lets you specify Inbound and Outbound rules for a particular program or port, and includes predefined rulesets and the ability to create a custom one.

 

[foster grant]

Comodo personal firewall.

This is the one I've using for a long time and until now never had any issues at all , And to be honest I wont use the Windows Firewall ..I used to use Outpost Firewall Pro and Nod32 2.7 Anti Virus on Vista ...but when I started using Win7 couldn't get either of them to run properly ...so went over to CIS

Anyway......re-installed windows today as my system was just getting slower and more non responsive ie nothing would install and ended up not even being able to run Firefox and some other software too ....so i guess there must have been maybe a little virus or something in there somewhere

 

[j.col]

i have used win 7 firewall since it came out, never had a problem with it