Best firewall

[MalteseFalcon]

Looking for a program that does both anti virus and firewall protection together. Only criteria is that it MUST be free software.

[peanut]

I use Comodo, firewall only, but it's free and does the job.

[cookie_365]

I use Comodo for both anti virus and firewall, and all seems ok.

[MalteseFalcon]

Thanks, will look at Comodo. Only asking as I was relying on just Windows defender, but during a scan by another program it said to install a firewall and an AV program.

[Kabaal]

Just turn on Windows firewall and use a good anti-virus. The firewall on windows is every bit as good as most third party ones nowadays, it's just doesn't annoy you with unnecessary messages all the time about what it's doing like others do to make themselves seem better.

[Uncle Peter]

For home use?

Windows Firewall / Microsoft Security Essentials

Windows Firewall Control (WFC) utility : http://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php for a convenient path to firewall settings that lives the systray.

[progers]

MSE is not sufficient protection, MS have stated that, if you want a free AV, AVAST seems to be the best at the moment

[SnoopZ]

Comodo for my firewall here and avast for antivirus along with malwarebytes.

[richard s]

Use in conjunction with Ghostery and C Cleaner also helps.

[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by progers

MSE is not sufficient protection, MS have stated that, if you want a free AV, AVAST seems to be the best at the moment

There isn't a single Antivirus product which offers sufficient protection.

[mark1234]

Originally Posted by progers

MSE is not sufficient protection, MS have stated that

Where/when did they state that?

[progers]

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security...virus-rankings

Can't find the MS link but the above refers to it

[snowey]

Originally Posted by Uncle Peter

For home use?

Windows Firewall / Microsoft Security Essentials

Windows Firewall Control (WFC) utility : http://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php for a convenient path to firewall settings that lives the systray.

MSE. for me

[mark1234]

I suspect there isn't an MS link to it, because the article reads like it was one person who let their mouth run away them during an interview with the press. The article even includes an update from MS. Every reference I can find to this all points back to this one article.

If you look at the MSE webpage then it says it's built on the same technology as MS charge businesses for and if you look at the VB100 test results then MSE/MS System Centre Endpoint Protection do pass the tests.

I'm not going to argue which product is or is not the best, but MS are not saying that MSE isn't sufficient. Though I tend to agree with Uncle Peter above who says that no single AV product provides sufficient protection.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ct-information
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/summary

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by progers

MSE is not sufficient protection, MS have stated that, if you want a free AV, AVAST seems to be the best at the moment

I've read through that article and no where does it say that MSE is not sufficient protection. Quite the contrary, they are aiming to ensure ALL users of windows are sufficiently protected, even those who don't go for a third party solution.

What they do say is they are actively working to test and improve security in their products and sharing the results of that testing with the various companies providing 3rd party protection (such as Anti virus and Anti Malware), rather than working to build the best anti virus and anti malware solution themselves.