It’s somewhat similar to Windows Defender and other antivirus/antispyware applications. It just doesn’t conflict, so why disable it?
Last time we spoke to the engineers in Redmond, we were actually advised to not turn off the Windows firewall as it is also connected to some other Windows network stack features (e.g. IPSec). So that’s what we do now, we leave it on.
VLK - thank you
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Does leaving W7 firewall on - impact on the performance in any way? ( Did someone benchmarked it ? )
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Does that mean that a user who wants to control applications (manually) has to maintain two different applications (W7 FW & AIS FW ) ?
No measurements have been done, but I’d say the difference would be completely negligible (as the Windows firewall as in fact hard wired to the Windows TCP/IP stack).
Well by default, the Windows firewall is only inbound firewall, i.e. it doesn’t really control applications in any way.
Thanks
Vlk
So far so good, I did a clean install of Avast 5 on one machine and i’m still poking around the settings. Doing a full scan just to try it out while typing this, seems pretty light on resources which is obviously a good thing.
So disabling the Windows 7 firewall is not a good idea huh? I might be installing Windows 7 soon on one of my machines. I’m planning on using a free firewall to monitor outbound connections with logging so I might use Comodo. I was using Sygate 5.6(doesn’t work with Vista and later Windows OSes) with XP with the Windows firewall turned off, i’m also behind a router, but I like to see what is trying to get out and Sygate has excellent logs. I was able to setup logging with the Windows 7 firewall when I tried the RC but I didn’t like the way it was implemented. Just wondering if besides IPsec if anything else is effected if I disable the Windows firewall.
Whether it is safe, to establish over the old version the new? Or it is necessary manually uninstall old version 4.8?