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Chrysalis · 14-04-2011, 13:01

if people want to save cash and already have vista or win7, then I suggest the excellent free 'windows 7 firewall control'. It uses the windows firewall internal firewall and is just a frontend for the rules, the weakness of the windows 7 firewall is that for outbound protection you get no popup when a app tries to use the net, it will just be blocked (if blocking enabled) so its all a manual process. This app watches the log and prompts you like 3rd party firewalls do but it has the advantage that it doesnt install any kernel drivers etc. it will use the underlying windows firewall, so no weird bugs or performance issues. I brought the paid version as I like the finetuning options in it but the free version is adequate if people just want some outbound protection. It does inbound also of course but in my view with NAT there is no need for software inbound protection.

14-04-2011, 13:01	#24
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Services: Gig1, Hub 5 Posts: 12,040	Re: No Internet Access and VM can't help :-( if people want to save cash and already have vista or win7, then I suggest the excellent free 'windows 7 firewall control'. It uses the windows firewall internal firewall and is just a frontend for the rules, the weakness of the windows 7 firewall is that for outbound protection you get no popup when a app tries to use the net, it will just be blocked (if blocking enabled) so its all a manual process. This app watches the log and prompts you like 3rd party firewalls do but it has the advantage that it doesnt install any kernel drivers etc. it will use the underlying windows firewall, so no weird bugs or performance issues. I brought the paid version as I like the finetuning options in it but the free version is adequate if people just want some outbound protection. It does inbound also of course but in my view with NAT there is no need for software inbound protection.