Re: McAfee vs Windows firewall

But, if you combine that knowledge, precaution and common sense to a
firewall known to be better than the Windows Firewall, you really have a
winning combination.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"B. Nice" <b__nice@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:19:06 -0400, null2006 <null@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I disagree with your statement that the Windows firewall is adequate.

I would put it this way: The windows firewall together with a little
knowledge, precaution and common sense is far better than any personal
firewall combined with ignorance.

Just because you aren't (knowingly) providing "outside services" from your
computer,
doesn't mean you shouldn't have a firewall that provides some protection
from
applications that initiate outgoing packets.

Only malware would make unsolicited outgoing connections you would
need to stop - in which case it is already too late.

A good, robust, updated AV package
isn't going to protect you from everything that you download or install
(knowingly or not),

Agreed.

and a good home firewall isn't an unreasonable thing to have.

That depends. I would promote the use of common sense instead of
relying on application control at any time.

I do agree with your assessment that seldom is an all-in-one suite of AV,
Firewall, antispam, and safe-surfing applications as good as buying
well-chosen
specific software packages for each purpose. It may be more expensive, but
worth
it, IMHO.

Agreed. Security suites really are becoming big horrible chunks of
code. Furthermore they tend to invent more and more useless functions
in order to look great in the "security" market.

Comodo is a very good (free) firewall, for example.

Based on what criteria do you think it is good?

You need to be a techie to understand its pop-ups - especially its
so-called "security concerns" messages. Once you are skilled enough to
understand those and can act properly according to its messages, you
will also understand that you don't need it any longer.

/B. Nice

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Comments I make or advice I may provide is primarily aimed at home users.


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