Is 7's firewall enough?

ctt1wbw said:

I just installed the Comodo Free Firewall. So far so good. And I passed the GRC leak test.

I use Comodo mainly to monitor outgoing. I am behind a hardware firewall also.

jsmoline said:

I have turned off windows firewall and tested with GRC Shields Up. True Stealth was the result. I am behind a router firewall. I have been doing a lot of reading on this software outbound firewall subject. Most of what I have been reading I agree with. In most cases, if you are alerted with a trojan, virus etc, outbound, it's too late. Your inbound protection didn't do it's job. I know that you can download bad things or visit dangerous sites. I would just say this. Don't. That's just my opinion. Thanks,
John

I agree with you. However, blocking outgoing can keep a Trojan from phoning home, spamming, and infecting more computers.

CarlTR6,

Thanks for that reminder about ShieldsUp! I hadn't been there in years. However, I'm happy to report that I do not exist... was never here. :)

Fumz said:

CarlTR6,

Thanks for that reminder about ShieldsUp! I hadn't been there in years. However, I'm happy to report that I do not exist... was never here. :)

Glad I could help and I'm glad you don't exist - on the internet anyway.

jsmoline said:

I know. That's the only part that bugs me. I read a lot of Leo Notenboom's stuff. In fact, I get his newsletter. He notes that a lot of the outbound popups are false. And we all know that some users just hit allow to get on with what they are doing. I was one. I agree with Leo when he says educate yourself, stay updated with your antivirus, antimalware, and windows updates. You can find him at Tech Questions? Get Answers! - Ask Leo! if you are interested.
John

Thanks John. I am familiar with Leo Notenbloom. On our two systems, anything I have not allowed creates a popup. If it is legitimate, I let it go on its merry way and I don't see the popup again. There are a couple of things that I want to see the popup everytime.

I've been reading this post so I thought I'd try GRC out. I'm behind a firewall router and I was True Stealth for the shields up test. Besides the router firewall I'm using Windows 7 firewall default settings. I ran the leak test and before it could start it's test ThreatFire grabbed a hold of it and stopped it. I allowed it to proceed in ThreatFire and of course I failed the leak test for out bound. I've been really pleased with ThreatFire.

I have never tried ThreatFire. Comodo stopped the leak test for me. Looks like you have your hardware firewall configured correctly.