AVG Firewall caused issues with homegroups/sharing

Hi everyone, this is my first post here..

I have two PCs, each with Windows 7 Ultimate installed, that I've been puzzled on how to set up to share files. Both also have AVG 8.5 suites installed, and after reading some posts on here, I tried turning the AVG firewalls off.. This worked great, as I was able to share to and from either PC!! That makes me very happy..

My question now, is this: What is a good firewall to use that WON'T give sharing issues? I turned Windows firewall back on, on both PCs.. Is this adequate? If anyone has a better firewall suggestion that doesn't give the same problems AVG does (had issues with streaming to Xbox 360 too), I would love to hear it!

Thanks in advance!

Nick

butchnap said:

Hi everyone, this is my first post here..

I have two PCs, each with Windows 7 Ultimate installed, that I've been puzzled on how to set up to share files. Both also have AVG 8.5 suites installed, and after reading some posts on here, I tried turning the AVG firewalls off.. This worked great, as I was able to share to and from either PC!! That makes me very happy..

My question now, is this: What is a good firewall to use that WON'T give sharing issues? I turned Windows firewall back on, on both PCs.. Is this adequate? If anyone has a better firewall suggestion that doesn't give the same problems AVG does (had issues with streaming to Xbox 360 too), I would love to hear it!

Thanks in advance!

Nick

The Windows firewall plus the one that your router has should be perfectly safe. The third party firewalls and A/V's are still evolving to work correctly with Windows 7 but so far they all seem to cause problems with sharing.

Jacee said:

AVG 8.5 is out dated ... AVG 9 is the latest Download AVG Free Edition 9.0 Build 814a2810 - Award winning protection to meet your basic security needs - Softpedia

Is their firewall less problematic?

butchnap said:

Jacee said:

AVG 8.5 is out dated ... AVG 9 is the latest Download AVG Free Edition 9.0 Build 814a2810 - Award winning protection to meet your basic security needs - Softpedia

Is their firewall less problematic?

It can't be any worse LOL. Only way to know for sure is to use it and find out.

whs said:

Free AVG is pretty useless all together. I would uninstall it with the AVG Uninstaller and use free MSE instead. That is not perfect either, but better than MSE. Not everybody wants to pay for Norton or G-Data.

MSE does a better job than AVG? For everything, viruses, malware etc?