Vista Firewall or Free Zone Alarm?

[Doc]

Just starting a thread on people's opinions on which firewall they are
using with Vista. I using Vista's firewall, with "Vista Firewall Control".
Any other comments or suggestions on a third party firewall or control,
for Vista?
TIA for your time.

 

[Malke]

Just starting a thread on people's opinions on which firewall they are
using with Vista. I using Vista's firewall, with "Vista Firewall Control".
Any other comments or suggestions on a third party firewall or control,
for Vista?
TIA for your time.

The built-in firewall that comes with Vista is adequate for most people. I
don't recommend ZoneAlarm in any case.

Malke

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Vista's own firewall works fine for me.

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[Ian Samson]

Vista's own firewall works fine for me.

And just to get a spoke in the wheel, I switched off Windows Firewall in
preference for ZoneAlarm. Why? I don't trust it. ZoneAlarm works fine on
my Windows 2000 Pro machine as well as on my XP Home machine, so why
should it not work fine on my two Vista laptops too? I am also a tad
suspicious of the Windows Firewall for very personal reasons.

 

[Doc]

And just to get a spoke in the wheel, I switched off Windows Firewall in
preference for ZoneAlarm. Why? I don't trust it. ZoneAlarm works fine on
my Windows 2000 Pro machine as well as on my XP Home machine, so why
should it not work fine on my two Vista laptops too? I am also a tad
suspicious of the Windows Firewall for very personal reasons.

Thanks to all for your timely response. Any more comments from others??

 

[John Amendall]

And just to get a spoke in the wheel, I switched off Windows Firewall in
preference for ZoneAlarm. Why? I don't trust it. ZoneAlarm works fine on
my Windows 2000 Pro machine as well as on my XP Home machine, so why
should it not work fine on my two Vista laptops too? I am also a tad
suspicious of the Windows Firewall for very personal reasons.

Get a router and you won't even need a firewall.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

I have nothing against Zone Alarm, in fact it is installed on my laptop
running Windows XP. Initially, during the early beta tests, like so many
other things, Zone Alarm wouldn't even look at Vista; in that respect I
always had problems. Because of the problems with third party firewalls
during the beta stages, I used the windows firewall and have never bothered
to install any other firewall onto my machine. Obviously the internet
connection goes through my router firewall and then through the windows
firewall and, 'touch wood' I haven't had any problems so far.

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[John Amendall]

Obviously the internet
connection goes through my router firewall and then through the windows
firewall and, 'touch wood' I haven't had any problems so far.

Why do you even use the Windows firewall when you have the router
firewall between the Internet and your machine?

 

[Mick Murphy]

Post this in security or vista.general

 

[Ian Samson]

But do routers firewall between computers, or only between the WAN and
LAN?

I do have a router - ZyXel - and it has its own firewall switched on -
but it is not configurable - it's either on or off - which is why I have
others.

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
As Malke posted above Vista native firewall is a very good one especially if
you learn how to configure the advanced aspects.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/...1b-a92a-4075-9f69-c12b7c54b52b&displaylang=en
Otherwise if you need a 3rd party firewall, this one is free, and works
better than most others.
http://www.pctools.com/firewall
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Doc]

Hi
As Malke posted above Vista native firewall is a very good one
especially if you learn how to configure the advanced aspects.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/...1b-a92a-4075-9f69-c12b7c54b52b&displaylang=en

Otherwise if you need a 3rd party firewall, this one is free, and works
better than most others.
http://www.pctools.com/firewall
Jack (MVP-Networking).

Again, thanks to all that responded. Will read the .doc file from the
above link, then decide if I will use the above 3rd party firewall.
Good luck to all of you!!