Windows 7 or Vista FW Advanced settings

[Hermite15]

@DavidR you can't uninstall WD in Seven but you can neutralize it (options/admin uncheck "use").

[Lisandro]

Shame on Microsoft! Another application bundled inside of the OS 

[DavidR]

@DavidR you can't uninstall WD in Seven but you can neutralize it (options/admin uncheck "use").

I know that (did that ages ago), it is YoKenny that obviously doesn't know, it can't be uninstalled only disabled and he has been using win7 for ages, so I guess he doesn't know much about it

[Hermite15]

Shame on Microsoft! Another application bundled inside of the OS 

yeah no big words ... that's probably the last time since when W7 was introduced, MSE wasn't out yet. There won't be any bundled security software in Windows 8... well at least not WD. Could still be that they bundle MSE but I doubt it, they got enough issues with market dominance abuse in the past so...

[Lisandro]

They got enough issues with market dominance abuse in the past so...

They seem to never learn about their own past...

[gdiloren]

I installed back again Comodo FW. Strange because I went up to check the pre-defined rules after install and it is set quite exactly as the Windows FW, i.e. to let all outbound permitted (I guess they don't want problems). Has someone been successful in playing with those rules in order to be more "secure"? :'(

[MAG]

I installed back again Comodo FW. Strange because I went up to check the pre-defined rules after install and it is set quite exactly as the Windows FW, i.e. to let all outbound permitted (I guess they don't want problems). Has someone been successful in playing with those rules in order to be more "secure"? :'(

I didn't see it as quite the same as windows fw.

Under firewall behaviour if you have it set to safe mode then it will only alow outbound traffic from applications it knows are safe. All other traffic is alerted.

By default it no longer creates rules for safe applications, but you can tick the box below to have it do that if you want.

I imagine it would treat any of the major browsers as a known safe application.

[gdiloren]

I installed back again Comodo FW. Strange because I went up to check the pre-defined rules after install and it is set quite exactly as the Windows FW, i.e. to let all outbound permitted (I guess they don't want problems). Has someone been successful in playing with those rules in order to be more "secure"? :'(

I didn't see it as quite the same as windows fw.

Under firewall behaviour if you have it set to safe mode then it will only alow outbound traffic from applications it knows are safe. All other traffic is alerted.

By default it no longer creates rules for safe applications, but you can tick the box below to have it do that if you want.

I imagine it would treat any of the major browsers as a known safe application.

Thanks!!! How stupid of me, it's re-assuring though, thank you!