Vista compatible Firewall

[Evan Platt]

I've searched through the past posts here and in the other vista
groups, and have yet to see an 'answer'... I'm looking for a Vista
compatible firewall. Everyone I've tried (Zone alarm, Kerio, a few
others) say they're not compatible. Tiny installed, but I kept blue
screening on reboot with a error once - that says my BIOS is not PC##
something capable? (It rebooted too quick to see). Rebooted into last
known good, uninstalled Tiny, and I'm back in business. Basically, I
want to know when a program is phoning home and be able to deny the
request.

Thanks.

Evan

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Have you tried the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security located under
Control Panel > Administrative Tools?
You can learn more about it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0106.mspx
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[The Dude]

Windows Firewall is compatible.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Windows firewall in Vista can control outgoing as well as incoming.

 

[jonah]

I've searched through the past posts here and in the other vista
groups, and have yet to see an 'answer'... I'm looking for a Vista
compatible firewall. Everyone I've tried (Zone alarm, Kerio, a few
others) say they're not compatible. Tiny installed, but I kept blue
screening on reboot with a error once - that says my BIOS is not PC##
something capable? (It rebooted too quick to see). Rebooted into last
known good, uninstalled Tiny, and I'm back in business. Basically, I
want to know when a program is phoning home and be able to deny the
request.

Thanks.

Evan

Andre posted this a while back, it appears to have a built in
firewall.

https://www.trendbeta.com/index.php?get=80

You can use the Windows Advanced firewall but it does not look like
its very user friendly

Jonah

 

[Guest]

A pop-up when a program want to phone home, like in free firewalls that's
compatible with XP. That's what i want. Not go in and manually edit in the
built in firewall. If I accidently get a program in my computer it's not to
supposed to get access to internet without my permisson.

 

[Jeff]

Mcafee's Firewall works like you want.

Jeff

A pop-up when a program want to phone home, like in free firewalls that's
compatible with XP. That's what i want. Not go in and manually edit in the
built in firewall. If I accidently get a program in my computer it's not
to
supposed to get access to internet without my permisson.

 

[Smartie]

Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0.2.xxx is in Beta (public) and is Vista
compatible.

And by the way :
Vista does a lot of homephoning general.
But where it comes up to security :
Vista phones home to 64.4.52.189 which is the Microsoft IP adress to do the
"genuine" checks. - blocking it inbound/outbound has no side-effects but may
save you from accidently be presented by "this copy of Windows is not
genuine" nags whenever MS feels to do so.

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A pop-up when a program want to phone home, like in free firewalls that's
compatible with XP. That's what i want. Not go in and manually edit in the
built in firewall. If I accidently get a program in my computer it's not
to
supposed to get access to internet without my permisson.