Which Firewall will be suggested?

[Black3agl3]

@arc & nmb : don't know... finjan did not show any ratings next to sites as it was supposed to do... but i did see a finjan iscon on my status bar... funny...

edit: in fact, when I clicked for more details concerning the site, it said that the links on the website were not safe, not the site itself...

[.: L' arc :.]

 I'm wondering, Finjan is acting odd on my PC too. Hmm.

[Lisandro]

I think browser defender is just another mcafee siteadvisor free. finjan is bit slow.

Is Browser Defender faster?
It is from PC Tools.

[YoKenny]

I think browser defender is just another mcafee siteadvisor free. finjan is bit slow.

Browser Defender™ is not from McAfee and I would not recommend anything from McAfee

About Browser Defender™
Browser Defender™ was developed by the same team of professionals who created Threat Expert, the advanced automated threat analysis system.
Threat Expert is known to produce reports with the level of technical detail that matches or exceeds antivirus industry standards such as those found in online virus encyclopedias.

http://www.browserdefender.com/company

ThreatExpert: Introduction:
http://www.threatexpert.com/introduction.aspx

Finjan is not slow.  
I use it on my old XP Home 2.4GHZ P4 512MB RAM system that I am trying to sell and it works fine.

[cinchez]

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Browser Defender makes my FF startup slower...about 4 seconds delay^^

Anyway, Is Finjan strangely weird right now...

-AnimeLover^^

[Yachiru]

any free firewall for windows vista 64-bit edition?

[Lisandro]

any free firewall for windows vista 64-bit edition?

As far I know, Comodo works on x64 systems.

[DavidR]

Agnitum's Outpost free version does, as the Pro version does and the free version is essentially the same but with fewer functions.

- Outpost Firewall 2009 free, a cut down version of the Outpost Firewall Pro version, which should still provide good protection, http://free.agnitum.com/. Download, http://www.filehippo.com/download_outpost_firewall/

[timcan]

any free firewall for windows vista 64-bit edition?

hi, if all you want is a firewall, take a look at privatefirewall.
http://www.privacyware.com/personal_firewall.html
The process monitor/hips is disabled on 64bit vista systems.  hope this helps,tim

[mathboyx215]

I think windows firewall is enough.

[DavidR]

Hate to burst your bubble.

Whilst the windows XP firewall is usually good at keeping your ports stealthed (hidden) it provides no outbound protection and you should consider a third party firewall.

Any malware that manages to get past your defences will have free reign to connect to the internet to either download more of the same, pass your personal data (sensitive or otherwise, user names, passwords, keylogger retrieved data, etc.) or open a backdoor to your computer, so outbound protection is essential.

Whilst the windows Vista firewall has outbound protection it is disabled by default - You could also enable the outbound protection of the Vista firewall, but it isn't very friendly, is rule based and you have to create the rules. - Vista Firewall Control, http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html and this, http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/faq.html. Also check out this topic for some user friendly help for the Vista Firewall Control, Outbound protection, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30234.0.

[YoKenny]

I think windows firewall is enough.

I agree if you have a hardware firewall first.

If the system has adequate Layered Protection with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM), Windows Defender or Microsoft Security Essentials and WinPatrol then a software firewall is redundant.

Review the excellent BestTechie interview with Bruce Harrison who is a developer at Malwarebytes:
http://www.besttechie.net/2008/08/20/malwarebytes-developer-interview <== software firewalls are discussed starting about 8 minutes into the first video

Both videos are excellent and well worth watching.

[mathboyx215]

I think windows firewall is enough.

I agree if you have a hardware firewall first.

If the system has adequate Layered Protection with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM), Windows Defender or Microsoft Security Essentials and WinPatrol then a software firewall is redundant.

Review the excellent BestTechie interview with Bruce Harrison who is a developer at Malwarebytes:
http://www.besttechie.net/2008/08/20/malwarebytes-developer-interview <== software firewalls are discussed starting about 8 minutes into the first video

Both videos are excellent and well worth watching.

I agree with you about layered protection.That is why I currently have mbam pro run along with avast 5 beta.Once the final version of avast 5 is released,I might just run only avast in real time.I personally believe the behavior shield can replace mbam.

[DavidR]

Same old story, a hardware firewall doesn't provide outbound protection unless it specifically says so (the greatest majority don't). So you are still vulnerable should your system get infected there is nothing to stop it connecting and all the associated risk that goes along with that.

[YoKenny]

Some people wear suspenders along with a belt on their pants as they are paranoid that their pants might fall down.