Firewall?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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???Does Avast Home Pro have a built in firewall? My Windows security alert keeps telling me I have no firewall turned on now that I have uninstalled Norton 05 and installed Avast Home version. Windows does say that it does not detect all firewalls on the security pop-up. Thanks for any answers to my questions.
                                                Matt
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Hello :slight_smile:

avast! don’t have build in firewall, but there are a lot of firewalls which work great with avast! :wink:
You can use the search option for more info about the firewalls :wink:

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Welcome matt04 to the forum, you should at least turn the windows firewall on as it is better than none at all.

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Hi Matt04
You can use Zone Alarm 6.1 , it is freeware for home users.
It has blocked more than 2.000 intrusions (doesn’t say what kind) during the 2 months period I am using it.
:wink:
I hope it helps
Yannis

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or you can use Sygate Person Firewall…
http://www.simtel.com/product.download.mirrors.php?id=53687

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Sygate has been bought out by Symantec and Sygate’s Personal Firewall solutions have been discontinued, support for existing pro (not free I believe) users will continue for a while.
So perhaps it would be better to chose a firewall that will be continuing development.

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So what do you suggest?
I tried Zone Alarm and I think really don’t like the interface…
Wich I don’t have with sygate.

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Kerio works well with avast! Sunbelt have just acquired it:

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm

The basic version is still free.

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There are no other good firewall (free) then kerio, sygate or zonealarm? Because I tried kerio once and I didn’t liked it much…

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Comodo is good if you’re willing to learn about TCP and UDP. For me, Green=good, red=bad is about as far as I want to go.

There are others:

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/security/fwfirewall.html

You can search for them on the forum. Various people have tried all of the ones mentioned I think.

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I believe Kerio to be the best of the free! :wink: You don’t have to LIKE it as long as it does the job! :smiley:

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excatly

i would get zone alarm,best one out there,ive tryed all the other firewalls and their not as good as zone alarm.

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Well Zone Alarm didn’t had options that I really wanted to use… Like port control with TCP and UDP and the interface with the program control is a laughter. And quite annoying…

I am using Comodo now… And it looks promising.

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I agree. From the research I did several months ago, Kerio seemed to be the best option, at least for my needs.