It would be good to have some sort of official confirmation, since getting 9 my firewall settings have remained the same with both firewalls remaining on, every time I check it’s the same as it was with 8 how both firewalls are active and neither turn off and I’ve not noticed any issues personally. I’ve asked questions about the firewall in avast before because when I have the FW set to private there doesn’t seem to be any firewall log entries appearing (which made me worry that the firewall in IS isn’t too hot) I only ever seem to get log entries with it set to the public setting, if that sounds normal to anyone, it was exactly the same when I had 8 as well.

One of the things I liked about avast was the fact the two firewalls worked together, I imagine I’m not the only one who’s not seen any changes to settings whilst others are clearly seeing windows firewall turn on and off, should windows firewall be off?

I’ve noticed that avast has control of the firewall setting yet it has not seen fit to switch the firewall off.