Which is best for Vista

[winnie95]

At present I have Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 installed to protect
Windows Vista Home Premium.
However I have turned of the firewall as I am using windows firewall.
Should I stay as I am or should I turn of windows firewall and turn on the
Kaspersky ant hacker protection.

Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

winnie95,

You probably have more configuration options with the Kaspersky firewall,
especially for outbound traffic. I would use the Kaspersky firewall and
disable the Windows firewall. However, this is only my personal preference.

C.B.

 

[winnie95]

" At present I have Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 installed to protect

Windows Vista Home Premium.
However I have turned of the firewall as I am using windows firewall.
Should I stay as I am or should I turn of windows firewall and turn on the
Kaspersky ant hacker protection.

Thanks in advance "

I would also like to ask should I turn on windows defender or will it
interfere with Kaspersky?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

At present I have Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 installed to protect
Windows Vista Home Premium.
However I have turned of the firewall as I am using windows firewall.
Should I stay as I am or should I turn of windows firewall and turn on the
Kaspersky ant hacker protection.

Thanks in advance

I use the Vista FW. I use IPsec that's on Premium to supplement the Vista
FW, if I have to stop outbound traffic/packets. The main job of any FW is to
stop unsolicited inbound traffic to the machine.

http://www.petri.co.il/block_ping_traffic_with_ipsec.htm

I implement the AnalogX IPsec policy rules, implementing only the *client*
side of the rules for service such as HTTP, NNTP, SMTP, etc, etc. I have no
need to enable the server side of the rules for HTTP, etc etc, because I
have no Web server that's facing/open to the Internet.

IPsec can stop both inbound and outbound traffic by port, protocol, IP or
subnet. You can learn for the AnalogX rules on how to make your own rules.

http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/articles/ipsec.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813878
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0105.mspx

 

[winnie95]

Thanks for taking the time to reply but I dont understand most of the
answer. Im afraid most of us are not too technical!

" I use IPsec that's on Premium to supplement the Vista

FW, if I have to stop outbound traffic/packets"

or the

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Thanks for taking the time to reply but I dont understand most of the
answer. Im afraid most of us are not too technical!

" I use IPsec that's on Premium to supplement the Vista

I should have said I was uisng IPsec on Premium now I am doing it on
Ultimate.

If I had to stop traffic with an outbound rule to stop it from going to a
remote/Internet IP, then I can stop the traffic, because the Vista FW cannot
do it as easily as IPsec can do it, even though you can set outbound rules
with Vista's FW, so I have read.

IPsec in setting that outbound rule to block the traffic to the remote IP
would give me time to find the source of the outbound traffic using other
tools to look for it.

IPsec runs in conjunction with Vista FW to supplement it. You can go to
IPsec at anytime based on the links provided to set rules in dealing with
inbound or outbound traffic to/from the machine to supplement any personal
FW solution running on the machine.

All you have to do is implement IPsec and try it. It doesn't take a rocket
genius to figure it out. There are plenty of articles out on Google showing
how to implement and use IPsec. The place is to start with the AnalogX rules
implemented on the computer and set the client side rules to enable traffic
for the various services, look and learn from the IPsec rules AnalogX is
providing.

 

[Doris Day - MFB]

At present I have Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 installed to protect
Windows Vista Home Premium.
However I have turned of the firewall as I am using windows firewall.
Should I stay as I am or should I turn of windows firewall and turn on the
Kaspersky ant hacker protection.

Thanks in advance

Turn them all on and download AVG and turn that on too. You can't be too
careful with Windoze Vista.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

 

[winnie95]

Thankyou Nizan and to Mr Arnold, Read your 2nd reply very carefully and
have just about got the gist and will try out your suggestions.

 

[thetruthhurts]

At present I have Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 installed to protect
Windows Vista Home Premium.
However I have turned of the firewall as I am using windows firewall.
Should I stay as I am or should I turn of windows firewall and turn on the
Kaspersky ant hacker protection.

Thanks in advance

I'd use all of Kaspersky and turn off MS firewall, defender, and UAC.
Kaspersky was just ranked #1 in an AV comparison.