Thread: How is Windows Firewall in Windows 7 now?

Well I know XBox uses UDP 88 and 3074, and TCP 3074

Sounds good so far.

Originally posted by: blackangst1 Originally posted by: lxskllr Originally posted by: Scouzer Originally posted by: blackangst1 Ive only played a little with it, but if it is the same as Vistas-its just as good as any 3rd party FW. And IMHO, anything you can do nativley is better. Well if it still doesn't have two way protection, it's really not nearly as good as a third party solution. It has 2 way /filtering/ like other apps do....

Yeah those ports are open in the firewall, not sure what's going on.

I used XP's firewall and now I'm using 7's firewall and I don't have any complaints.

Originally posted by: blackangst1 Ive only played a little with it, but if it is the same as Vistas-its just as good as any 3rd party FW. And IMHO, anything you can do nativley is better. Well if it still doesn't have two way protection, it's really not nearly as good as a third party solution.

Don't get confused here. When you get down to it, any two way firewall is as good as any other in terms of doing just the firewall thing. But what separates the men from the boys is. 1. The quality of the log files easily telling you what traffic is going in and out, and by extension what you what traffic you can easily block. 2. The other non firewall thingies like HIPs and Host files that better firewall offer. I will take non Microsoft...

Windows firewall is okay, it always has been. Don’t mistake what it is for something else. It is a helpful component of a defense in depth strategy. My assumption is primarily that we are talking about home networking. If you are connected directly to the outside world and you are just relying on your firewall for protection then you’ve probably got some bigger concerns. Asking normal users/family members to keep up with outbound rules and...

Windows 7 firewall + hardware firewall is a great combo. The only valuable additional feature in 3rd party firewalls is easier outgoing traffic control. Creating rules in W7F is clunky. But outgoing traffic control is not a security measure so I leave the default setting. I've had nothing but bad experiences with 3rd party firewall. They just bloat your system and add an redundant layer of security. I also find stand alone antivirus runs...

i am using windows 7 and when i open any site almost all pop-ups blocked. There is not any effcet of clicking on allow popups. How can i enable them. Thanks & Regards Data Recoveryt Data Recovery