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Firewalls
Posted: Sep Sun 27, 2009 8:54 pm
by Jacca5660
Since we are on line so much, I wanted to know what firewalls are used by my fellow Diser's. I was using zonealarm now I'm using Comodo. I feel it provides me with a lot more protection and more control. What firewall do you use and why?
Posted: Sep Sun 27, 2009 9:06 pm
by skull
I don't really use a firewall. I just have everythign but a few select ports blocked on my router
Posted: Sep Sun 27, 2009 10:57 pm
by Len90
I rarely use a firewall. Gotta love Mac's. Pretty much the only way to get a virus is if you purposely download one.
Posted: Sep Mon 28, 2009 4:23 am
by elizabethswann
AVG is my firewall/anti-virus program. It scans every single day at noon so that's a relief too.
Posted: Sep Mon 28, 2009 11:42 am
by acp
I generally don't have a firewall app on my computer. My router blocks all ports other than those that are in use. The OS default firewalls are on (windows firewall and whatever the hell OS X uses), but that's it. I don't do anything special for that.
I tended to find things like zonealarm etc just unneccesarily slowed everything down.
Andy.
Posted: Sep Mon 28, 2009 11:30 pm
by Len90
acp wrote:I generally don't have a firewall app on my computer. My router blocks all ports other than those that are in use. The OS default firewalls are on (windows firewall and whatever the hell OS X uses), but that's it. I don't do anything special for that.
I tended to find things like zonealarm etc just unneccesarily slowed everything down.
Andy.
Very true. I use Kaspersky on my PC and it does slow down the machine a ton. It is terrible and saddening to see that I am always running at least 1.5 GB of RAM on a 32 bit operating system at idle due to the friewall and anti-virus.