What is the best Firewall for Windows 7?

[DreamsCentral]

Hi,

I was using Comodo Firewall on Windows XP. It does not seem to be working properly with Win 7. MSE, though includes Defender and MSRT, does not have a Firewall.

Can anyone suggest a good Firewall for Windows 7?

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DreamsCentral

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Signed: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 8:36:04 PM IST

[Insomneac]

I've installed Comodo on a friends PC using compatibility mode, and it installed and is running just fine on Windows 7 RTM.

Edited November 10, 2009 by Insomneac

[fizban2]

Using the built in firewall have worked very well for me, runs well and easy to manage

[DigeratiPrime]

firewall.cpl - Windows Firewall

wf.msc - Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Best firewall there is for Windows IMO.

[vladv]

firewall.cpl - Windows Firewall

wf.msc - Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Best firewall there is for Windows IMO.

You are SO right,I use only the W7 built-in firewall and never have any problems on the net!

Edited March 21, 2011 by vladv

[albertwt]

Yes, combining it with Microsoft Security Essential is also great too :-)

[Andromeda43]

Always..... Windows Firewall, with a hardware firewall in a Router.

Dual protection and totally NON-Invasive.

But you'd better back that up with a competent Anti-Virus program, with Anti-Trojan and Anti-Spyware.

No one program will ever give you 100% protection. It's always advisable to use a package of good programs to be really safe.

B)

[cannie]

Always..... Windows Firewall, with a hardware firewall in a Router.

Hi Andromeda43:

Your proposal is furthermore the only possible option if you install SP1. It has left "out of service" all traditional firewalls.

Greetings.

[NoUserName]

firewall.cpl - Windows Firewall

wf.msc - Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Best firewall there is for Windows IMO.

any special tweaks or use defaults?

Always..... Windows Firewall, with a hardware firewall in a Router.

Dual protection and totally NON-Invasive.

But you'd better back that up with a competent Anti-Virus program, with Anti-Trojan and Anti-Spyware.

No one program will ever give you 100% protection. It's always advisable to use a package of good programs to be really safe.

B)

Which applications you would recommend for?

Any frees?

[Tripredacus]

The basic Windows firewall is fine to start with. I use it but not the Advanced Security option. I also have a hardware firewall as well. For what I do at home, I don't really need anything more than that.

[cannie]

Which applications you would recommend for?

Any frees?

You may try this freeware:

http://www.privacyware.com/personal_firewall.html

Greetings

[vinifera]

I use windows 7 firewall control + its shortcut put in startup folder

makes much easier to "use" win7 FW

the only downfall, it doesn't allow blocking of system processes and some other that MS tagged as safe

[nimd4]

http://www.privacyware.com/personal_firewall.html

That, Outpost and Comodo are the only legitimate choices really (perhaps Kaspersky and Norton, too). For me the important thing isn't the application (process) filtering, like someone mentioned, but a proper rule-based firewall like Kerio 2.1.5 used to be (program, process / protocol / ip address / port - in one simple prompt, intelligently designed, a concept that few companies seemingly understand?)

Outpost was somewhat buggy when tested on Win7 x64 Pro & Ultimate & the problem with Comodo is that it lists Windows System Applications and Windows Updater Applications as trusted, when those are some of the more important things to filter (as the window$ system itself is targeted and attacked).

Sunbelt Personall Firewall took over the development of Kerio 2.1.5 (& Tiny Personal Firewall), both of which evolved into some other (unneeded, corporate?.. & utterly useless) products, but its development stopped @ Vista and it really never got out of the beta stage unfortunately.

ps.

It's been many years, decades, that noone can build the software firewall we all need (save a few exceptions, here and there, some mentioned above). Hard for me to grasp this, even now.

Edited April 28, 2011 by nimd4

[cannie]

.....Windows System Applications and Windows Updater Applications as trusted, when those are some of the more important things to filter....

Hi nimd4:

If you are running Windows 7 without SP1 you are able to filter any system default apps by using the freeware "Pc Tools Firewall Plus".

Greetings