Need a good firewall for Vista, google gives nada ;)

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Like this title says, please recommend me a good firewall application to use with Vista.

I don't want any all in one suites like Kaspersky Internet Security etc. I just want a stand alone firewall.

My antivirus is Avast! and it works beautifully, it's fast and quiet, so I don't want to mess around with changing AV etc. ;) :p

I've got a router firewall, but it's not good enough.

There is a dns client flaw in default Vista installations, which was patched last week. Right before the patch I was lucky enough to visit some site or whatever that infected my system, disabled system restore and killed my dns service. I had to format and reload :p :D ;)

It's a bugger......
 
Solution:

Take old PC with 2 networks cards in, load Smoothwall (lunix firewall OS) and there you have one of the best firewalls you could want...
 
supersunbird said:
Solution:

Take old PC with 2 networks cards in, load Smoothwall (lunix firewall OS) and there you have one of the best firewalls you could want...
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Thanks for the reply supersunbird ;) It is valid, but I don't have an old pc bro, and it it's quite overkill for my humble setup :p

Any other thoughts?
 
lol, Linux people always expect everyone to have about 20 old P1's lying around their house for some reason :p

I guess they all do...
 
teraside said:
Like this title says, please recommend me a good firewall application to use with Vista.

I don't want any all in one suites like Kaspersky Internet Security etc. I just want a stand alone firewall.

My antivirus is Avast! and it works beautifully, it's fast and quiet, so I don't want to mess around with changing AV etc. ;) :p

I've got a router firewall, but it's not good enough.

There is a dns client flaw in default Vista installations, which was patched last week. Right before the patch I was lucky enough to visit some site or whatever that infected my system, disabled system restore and killed my dns service. I had to format and reload :p :D ;)

It's a bugger......
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Windows Fire Wall :D

heh nah... also struggled. Let us know if you find something.
 
I found an article yesterday on wikipedia with a software list that had some Vista compatible firewalls, I can't find it today ;) It is magically missing from my history as well :p :D
 
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