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Vista Firewall just control inbound not outbound.
Can a compromised operating system really protect you? If someone is able to infect your system with malware, do you honestly expect the infected system to be able to defend itself against the malware sending outbound traffic? It's kind of like expecting a thief not to steal anything after he has gone through the trouble of breaking into your house.
Smoothwall FTW!
I hate OS firewalls, always slows down your PC and causes issues IMO.
*ahem*
Vista has a firewall, you realize. Even VISTA64!!!
*ahem*
Seriously, the Vista firewall isn't the XP one, not by a longshot. It works just fine, and it sure would be nice if people realized that at some point. Why bog the box down with software one simply does not need... it just doesn't make sense.
Adding software to do things Vista already does just Sam-freakin-dandy is a total waste...
As already asked- why do you care about outbound filtering?Vista Firewall just control inbound not outbound.
"To work with outbound filtering, you instead have to use the Microsoft Management Console, specifically the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Group Policy applet, by typing wf.msc at the Search box or command prompt and pressing Enter. It's shown in the nearby figure.
If you look in the various profiles in the Overview area, you'll see that for each profile, "Outbound connections that do not match a rule are allowed."
Every rule in the Windows Firewall allows outbound connections, though. Click the Outbound Rules icon on the left side of the screen, and you'll see all the outbound rules. As you can see from the nearby figure, every outbound rule allows outbound connections. None block connection.
Making matters worse, there is no way for an individual or IT staff on their own to create an all-purpose rule that will block malware from making outbound connections. You can only create a rule to block a specific piece of malware, and doing that is an extremely difficult task, requiring that you know quite a bit of information about that piece of malware, including its location on your PC, the port it uses to make outbound connections, and so on.
To stop all malware from making outbound connections, you'd have to know all those details of all the thousands of pieces of malware in existence, and create rules for each one individually. But even that wouldn't work, because you wouldn't know about malware that has not yet been detected.
In short, as a practical matter, it's an impossible task.
Competing firewalls often use built-in intelligence to allow certain programs to make outbound connections, and then issue alerts when other programs make connections. You're told the program name and executable, and given a recommendation as to whether the program should be allowed. You can then block or allow the program to make a connection on a one-time or permanent basis."
You can only create a rule to block a specific piece of malware, and doing that is an extremely difficult task, requiring that you know quite a bit of information about that piece of malware, including its location on your PC, the port it uses to make outbound connections, and so on.
WOW, are you serious? is that your criteria for what makes the best firewall ever?I installed comodo and to be honest best firewall ever. I mean it gives you alot of details, plus works with VISTA64, FREE.
WOW, are you serious? is that your criteria for what makes the best firewall ever?
1. Must work with the users OS. [check]
2. Must be free [check]
3. Must have a nice interface that spews lots of details [check]
...hmm yea, that's like the basic bare minimums of the makings of a crappy firewall that barely does it's job... I think if you want to continue down this path of being a paranoid security freak, you should probably do a ton more research.
Vista Firewall just control inbound not outbound.
That's the XP SP2 firewall. Vista firewall does indeed allow blocking outbound traffic. I understand it's not on by defualt, but you can easily turn it on.
Wow you guys are bitching about how much resources comodo takes yet you run Vista?
Isn't that pot calling the kettle black?
I use xp64 comodo firewall is great I actually like the proactive defense more then the firewall. Its a must for a wireless networks, I admit its pain at first but once its trained up it does its job very well.
WOW, are you serious? is that your criteria for what makes the best firewall ever.
I've been using COMODO on x64 for about a week, and I like it. Just turn the security down on it because the constant alerts get really annoying.
And about resource usage, it's using 2.5MB... what a resource hog!
I've been using COMODO on x64 for about a week, and I like it. Just turn the security down on it because the constant alerts get really annoying.
And about resource usage, it's using 2.5MB... what a resource hog!
That's 2.5MB that you're probably seeing in Task Manager, but it sure as hell ain't all of it. Open up Task Manager and take a look at the Handles, and several of the working sets - there's more going on that you're aware of, I promise.
But yes, it is fairly low in terms of necessary resources for operation... it just ain't that low.