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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purchase of Norton or McAfee or just use the Windows built in firewall. Thanks -- spat61 |
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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
If you don't want to spend $ go with windows built in firewall. -- mansrm81 If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep . Click on the scales. [image: http://www.vistax64.com/members/mans...-untitled.jpg] |
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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
"spat61" wrote in message ... Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purchase of Norton or McAfee or just use the Windows built in firewall. Thanks -- I believe the free Comodo firewall supports 64 bit. www.comodo.com |
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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
"spat61" wrote in message
... Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purchase of Norton or McAfee or just use the Windows built in firewall. Thanks -- spat61 If you have a router with SPI then you only need the one that comes with Vista. Vista advanced firewall settings has outbound protection too but last time I tried messing around with that it blocked Vista's own Windows update software. Brilliant move by Microsoft. :-/ |
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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
I run free Comodo firewall on 64 bit with on problem if you don't want to
use the Vista one Vic I believe the free Comodo firewall supports 64 bit "spat61" wrote in message ... Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purchase of Norton or McAfee or just use the Windows built in firewall. Thanks -- spat61 |
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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:46:08 -0600, spat61 wrote:
Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purchase of Norton or McAfee or just use the Windows built in firewall. Thanks Read in its entirety! Managing the Windows Vista Firewall http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../cc510323.aspx |
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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
"spat61" wrote in message
... Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purchase of Norton or McAfee or just use the Windows built in firewall. Thanks Two points: 1. In my view. the Norton security software is the worst available and McAfee is second worst. I strongly recommend staying away from everything either makes. 2. The built-in Vista firewall is fine. |
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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
spat61 wrote:
Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purchase of Norton or McAfee or just use the Windows built in firewall. Thanks Vista's built-in firewall is perfectly adequate for most people. While it's not quite up to the ease-of-use standards of Kerio or ZoneAlarm, it has been noticeably improved over WinXP's version. There are two interfaces for Vistas built-in firewall: 1) A simplified one accessed through the Control Panel that is the only one most people see. To further supplement this view, Sphinx's Vista Firewall Control http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/) is a piece of freeware that makes the Vista Firewall much more easily manageable to the average user. 2) And the more advanced "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WF.msc), accessed via the Start Menu's Administrative Tools folder, for the experienced user who wants more granular control. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot |
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Firewall for x64 Vista Home Premium
"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
... spat61 wrote: Much to my suprise I quickly found out I can no loner use Zone Alarm for a firewall. Shouls I be considering the purchase of Norton or McAfee or just use the Windows built in firewall. Thanks Vista's built-in firewall is perfectly adequate for most people. While it's not quite up to the ease-of-use standards of Kerio or ZoneAlarm, it has been noticeably improved over WinXP's version. There are two interfaces for Vistas built-in firewall: 1) A simplified one accessed through the Control Panel that is the only one most people see. To further supplement this view, Sphinx's Vista Firewall Control http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/) is a piece of freeware that makes the Vista Firewall much more easily manageable to the average user. 2) And the more advanced "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WF.msc), accessed via the Start Menu's Administrative Tools folder, for the experienced user who wants more granular control. -- Bruce Chambers I'll second the Sphinx Vista Firewall Control as being damn easy to use and works though it does have the disconcerting issue of being overloaded at times. Pops up a server busy message with switch/retry buttons that can't be dismissed except by selecting the switch (opens start menu for some reason) but can't complain to much as the price is free. |