Believe me, if properly set up, closed all those ports which needs to be closed, you don’t have to worry that much… anyway, do you have any information in your computer which is unbelievable important that no one outside should see ? I don’t think so, after all you are not an secret service or anything like that ;D ;D
If your answer is yes, then I wouldn’t keep those information in there if I were you… all those information, data, and other stuff you should keep on some DVDs, CDs, or even spare hard drive.
People worry too much sometimes, so I would say, we are never 100% safe, but behind a hardware router/firewall and software one as well, you are pretty safe and you can sleep tight…
Cheers !
EDIT: Also you can help yourself as well… do not surf those suspicious sites with patchs, cracks, serials, XXX sites, casino sites… be careful whe using P2P programs, enable avast! P2P provider for the P2P client you use, etc…
Hi s.z.craftec, I’m just a welder and don’t surf the suspicious sites.Just thought it interesting to see. Must be doing its job. A little off the topic,do you make avatars for forum members?
Haha, nothig wron in being a welder my friend… I was one as well when I first came to this wonderful country… this country doesn’t recognize our school diplomas from Europe, even if you were Einstein, haha… so in the beginning you have to work all kind of jobs. I was welder on three spot welder as well as doing some other general labour jobs.
No work is to be ashamed of, only if you can work, are able to work and you don’t want to work…
Welders also tend to visit all kinds of sites my friend, so you still have to be very careful ;D ;D ;D
Well, sometimes when I catch some free time, I make some avatars for my forum pals…
I can weld the crack of dawn ;D but not a broken heart if you get spare time and want to make a new avatar ,I love the three stooges ;D especially shemp.thanks tim
I am really happy to see you are being so grateful, but there is really no need to thank me my friend. I am happy if you like it, and my reward is to see you “wearing” it in this forum… you sure “welded” it nicely in your profile timcan, hehe ;D ;D
To be honest i havent paid much attention to the reporting side as yet.
There is a nice feature that i hadnt revealed to anyone yet but as im at work itll have to wait. Theres a whole bunch of learning wizards for applications like Avast!,A2,messenger programs,and mail clients that use web connection that i hadnt picked up on. Makes the whole process of enabling access so much easier.
worth noting that since I can recall a software firewall would automatically de-activate windows firewall but not any more. I noticed today that windows firewall was active alongside CPF.
When i de-activate windows firewall windows security centre then decides it wont play ball and monitor CPF so this must have happened recently . ???
Or maybe my heads been in the sand.
Same here Cloussau,had to turn off windows firewall manually and tell security center I would monitor myself.Maybe como do can fix this in an update. I believe sygate pro is not reconized either.
That is the other way round surely, Why doesn’t Windows Security Center recognize Comodo or Sygate pro?
Comodo is too new.
I don’t use Sygate, but there were issues in the past with it not being recognised, I can’t say if this is correct for the current version. However if you know it is working you can disable the WSC check. You could probably get a more accurate answer at the sygate forum.
That’s really not that important after all… if this firewall does it’s job well (as it does), it really doesn’t matter what Windows says. Same thing with ZoneAlarm not recognizing avast! installed on your system as an antivirus… that doesn’t mean avast! is not good antivirus, and of course no one should be scared and stop using avast! just because of that.
Comodo really looks like promising firewall, and as far as I know, it passed all those tests. The ones that Comodo failed, I am sure, even some better known firewalls failed as well.
Best of all, even in it’s freeware version, it’s 100% complete firewall. Try to pass Tooleaky ( http://tooleaky.zensoft.com ) with ZoneAlarm free… there is no chance it will pass. I tried it while I was still using it, and it failed. Only Pro version passed that test. But with Comodo, you don’t have to worry about Tooleaky…
anyway, i have to problem setting up this firewall, i went to some firewall test websites and it failed all of them. i’m sure i’m just not setting it up right, could you guys tell me some basic settings i need to do to make my computer stealth?
Firewalls should automatically stealth your PC by default hmmm :-\ of course its possible that you might have to do some configurations. What test did you use?
it failed those test, some are stealth and some are just “closed”, what did i do wrong, need help from whoever’s using this firewall please ??? This never happened when i used zonealarm, kerio or sygate.
and don’t surf the suspicious sites.Just thought it interesting to see. Must be doing its job. A little off the topic,do you make avatars for forum members?
if you get spare time and want to make a new avatar ,I love the three stooges ;D especially shemp.thanks tim