whats a good firewall? to work with windows 7

The basic windows firewall pretty good? or whatabout something like comando stand alone firewall or adware firewall?

Or is windows firewall pretty good?

the windows firewall is pretty good.

windows firewall sufficient enough but if you want a different firewall I would suggest commodo firewall which I see you listed,it's pretty good but I don't use it on my pc but have it on my fathers since so if he clicks on somthing he's not suppose to it will block the unknown incoming connection and ask you to allow it or not. Anyways if you want the feel of controlling everthing single bit of traffic like even if your desktop applications can connect to the net or not then commodo is good. If you have a decent firewall on your router then you should be fine with windows firewall,personally I just use windows firewall and just do 1-2 a week scan for any malicious items that might have got in my system and usually it's clean and I might just get some cookies I have to clean out with SAS

Windows 7 is a good firewall until you click on something bad. Once thats done 7s firewall is useless. Comodo with D+ or Private firewall with its HIPPS would be a safer choice even at the default install settings, but you do run the risk of system conflicts with the 3rd party super firewalls.:shock:

yea I want to really wrap my computer in bubble tape.... would that help?

comando is over complicated... just been thinking I need reinstall windows (just windows) because some issues are fricken anoying hell like random restarts and freezes.. however whats point if I am not ready with the programs I want to install after I do it... I dunno still thinking it out might also look into warrenty... just wish the computer would tell me

I have been using Windows firewall for almost a year now and since last month I switched to Comodo Firewall and it works great with Windows 7, it doesn't consume much of the Ram. All in all it seems to do the job very well.

Just add Sandboxie and it wont matter which firewall or A/V you choose.

Comodo Firewall already offers sandbox as well as many antivirus softwares

avast sand boxies ... but prob not good sand box

how does microsoft security essitiels tagged with sandboxie nothing else? or do I need a malware seperet?

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how does microsoft security essitiels tagged with sandboxie nothing else? or do I need a malware seperet?

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Sandboxie and MSE or most any other A/V run from a limited user account is all you will need for the most part.

limited account? I run with adminstraor disabled
I have no guest account just owner ... you can run with adminstraor priviliages... is that what you mean? or you mean make guest account and disable adminstraor? all know is there are 3 levels right? Adminstraor , owner and guest right? is there a gen. security thread? I always feel like I just don't understand enough about windows 7

This info should be available on your machine:

Why use a standard user account instead of an administrator account?

The standard account can help protect your computer by preventing users from making changes that affect everyone who uses the computer, such as deleting files that are required for the computer to work. We recommend creating a standard account for each user.

When you are logged on to Windows with a standard account, you can do almost anything that you can do with an administrator account, but if you want to do something that affects other users of the computer, such as installing software or changing security settings, Windows might ask you to provide a password for an administrator account.

The above info is available via a link when you're attempting to add a new user via the "User Accounts" Control Panel item.

The Guest account is installed by default and is typically disabled. Unless you've deleted it, you'll find it by going to "User Accounts".

There is plenty of info provided right there on your machine if you click on help buttons, "?" marks and other helpful links. But even by the time you're ready to move on to a new OS, you'll still be finding yourself running across something in your current version you were previously unaware of, no matter how much you thought you knew about it.