For a couple of weeks i used Comodo Firewall. Now, I know Avast & Comodo Firewalls are very different, but when using Comodo with Bittorrent I had to configure a whole load of application rules. A lot of the time Comodo blocked connections Bittorrent tried to make.
With Avast I notice it is set by default to allow all connections (otherwise auto-decide)
Just wondering how safe that it? Should i configure Avast firewall to connect to Bittorrent connections in a ‘safer’ way? Or does Avast Firewall take good enough care of this by itself?
when using Comodo with Bittorrent I had to configure a whole load of application rules. A lot of the time Comodo blocked connections Bittorrent tried to make.
you could ask yourselfe ..... why install programs that you dont trust with outbound connection ::)
Mmmm I hear you, but on the other hand i’ve been using Bittorrent for a few years now and never had a problem. On top of that I get a lot of free stuff from it
It was more a question of what others did / thought of this than a worry.
The good thing about the Avast Firewall is I don’t have to configure it for every application like I did with Comodo. I think auto-decide should be fine if your torrenting If your worried about connecting to bad peers when torrenting, you should use PeerBlock.
