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Best Firewall for Windows
| Do you really need more firewalling than what Windows nowadays provides through windows firewall? Many years ago I used ZoneAlarm, but since then I guess things might have changed and I gave up serious use of Windows for all things, save 2-3 games I still play on it while I dont care if it breaks.
| The built in one is fine. Anything else that touts itself as a firewall is shady
| I still miss little snitch from when I switched from Mac osx to windows
| As anti-MS and pro gnu/linux fan I would suggest you honestly to use the builtin windows firewall and the official MS security essentials, if you really believe you have to use windows. Why? Because of two reasons:
1. Efficency: MS works best with MS. All 3rd party firewall and antivirus I know do insanely consume ressources.
2. Security: 3rd party firewalls and antivir softw is usually proprietary and won't fix builtin backdoors of windows and they may contain their own backdoors.
| If you do gaming, avoid like the plague any AV/firewall that is not Windows defender and Windows firewall, simply because of the resource consumption and bloatware.
Also remember that the same rule of "if you don't pay for the product, you are the product" applies to third party security software.
Surely you wouldn't trust that kind of software getting in charge of your whole OS/data security
| >>205067 thing is, with MS you pay for the product AND you are the product. If nothing else I would like to make sure I control EVERYTHING that comes from my PC. Otherwise I'm being sold Candy Crush and Cortana and all this dumb bullshit that I don't have to deal with with KDE.
| >>207417
With MS you aren't the product, but the beta-tester for developers that live and work on a island where they slowly started to understand why unixoids are superior to dos.
| The best firewall for Windows is Windows Firewall
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| I like gaming and I'm not comfortable with Linux yet. (I use mint) Glasswire free is more like a network monitor isn't it?