They Vista be frozd!

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Zone Alarm has been my choice for years..

That's probably because you're a gay //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

you can turn it off in security center, which is found in the control panel
screw firewalls altogether, not needed in a home environment unless you're a douche surfer

With the internet today they are very needed, even in a home environment.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

With the internet today they are very needed, even in a home environment.

thats your take on things, i havent used a firewall or antivirus in years and have had ONE problem and that was 3 years ago. a simple reinstall fixed that

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

yet another reason not to use vista

I have not had any problems with ff3 and vista on the work machine

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

thats your take on things, i havent used a firewall or antivirus in years and have had ONE problem and that was 3 years ago. a simple reinstall fixed that

I have always turned off the firewall on all my machines but I do use AVG for antivirus.

IMO firewall is useless

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

You still need a software firewall though, yes a router will stop most, but not all, outside attacks but it will do nothing to stop malware on your pc from pjoning home where a good software firewall will.

Will it stop malware from phoning home ? Yes ... However, most people will just click the allow button on the pop-up ...
The Windows firewall (XP SP2/3, Vista) + a hardware firewall is better than a good software firewall w/o a hardware firewall and a hell of a lot less annoying and intrusive ...

Ultimately, a good hardware firewall and a good software firewall would provide the best protection, but there's still some degree of hassle that goes along w/ a good software firewall that may not be worth it to the average joe.

 

[JeepSound 10+ year member]

i like vista. also just downloaded opera. i like it a little better than firefox actually.

Werd.

Opera runs faster than IE and Firefox for me. Plus, I love the Speed dial option. Makes shit easier and quicker.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

Will it stop malware from phoning home ? Yes ... However, most people will just click the allow button on the pop-up ...
The Windows firewall (XP SP2/3, Vista) + a hardware firewall is better than a good software firewall w/o a hardware firewall and a hell of a lot less annoying and intrusive ...

Ultimately, a good hardware firewall and a good software firewall would provide the best protection, but there's still some degree of hassle that goes along w/ a good software firewall that may not be worth it to the average joe.

Well, I always use Zone Alarm and a router. Just to clear up your terminology, a router is not a firewall, NAT just happens to function as a nice alternative. A true hardware firewall actually inspects every packet whereas the NAT technology in a router does not. It works by only allowing packets in that the computer requested and discarding packets from addresses that are foreign. This does act as a godd firewall, but once malware gets in it is useless where a real hardware firewall works in both directions. This is why I always still recommend using Zone Alarm and AVG.