oh yeah, I knew that page, just forgot that a firewall tab appeared on one of the shots. Thanks anyway 
Your welcome. Have a great weekend. 
The whole point of a firewall is to effectively stealth your system from outside, all good firewalls do that as a matter of course rather than as an option.
Visit grc.com and look for shields up and that tests your firewalls ability to stealth it from view.
You’re welcome.
The only firewall ill try will be Avast! Firewall (The trial and if i like it ill buy it when i will got the money for it) Also my current 1 is the Vista Firewall and im happy with it.
just one thing about Shields Up (grc): the result you get there depend at 99,9% on your router and its settings. Not much to do with your Windows based firewall. I had some fun once on Comodo forums about that with another member happily reporting his Shields Up results everytime a new beta version of Comodo version was out…LOL this was aboslutely irrelevant. Easy to prove ;D; deactivate your Windows based firewall, assuming you got a router Firewall running, and run the test again. If your router FW is a good one (which is often the case, already with default settings), all your ports are already stealth. Now try the contrary, with any software firewall, and see how “easy” it is to get the same results ;D
Your best firewall, concerning how well your ports are protected from online attacks/intrusions is your router’s firewall, that’s a fact. I just did the test again a minute ago, with CIS firewall on, and then off, and got the same results in both cases:
Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.
;D
no it doesn’t mean that. A Windows based software firewall does many tasks that your router fw won’t do, unless you’re ready to spend hours trying to configure it. It’s not just about ports
@Conogo
Please view the excellent video by BestTechie with Bruce Harrison who is a developer at Malwarebytes – the company who created Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware:
Malwarebytes Developer Interview
http://www.besttechie.net/2008/08/20/malwarebytes-developer-interview <== software firewalls are discussed starting about 8 minutes into the video
If you must have a firewall on XP then PC tools or Outpost are good and Vista has a built in firewall that can be controled with Vista Firewall Control by SphinxSoftware.
Well the default Vista Firewall got outbound protection also dont worry Yokenny i did see it.
Basically, that’s correct.
the only problem is how u give your permission…
outbound protection means that no request can go out from your PC unless it’s been been explicitly requested and allowed by you (ie the programs you’ve allowed to,their limits etc…) and nothing else…like a trojan. That’s the main purpose, how you control what your programs do when they connect, if you asked them to connect, or if an “accidentally” downloaded intruder is attempting to connect using hundreds of possible means. That’s where your firewall outbound protection does its job, depending on how you’ve tweaked the interface (rules).
Now fortunately firewalls have modes doing much of that on their own, like being able to recognize the applications, and detect if something’s wrong: predefined policies and rules, that can still be tweaked, are your friends.
Also when u see “2 Ways” its mean Inbound and Outbound. So its recommanded now a day. XP Firewall got only Inbound which is not enought.
… ? Mean ? If you use the XP Firewall i can recommand to you to watch the list of the firewall at matousec. http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php So you can choice the one that you feel great for you.
confirming, that site became the best possible reference for firewall testing out there
For me its alway been the best firewall testing. ;D But im still happy with my current windows vista firewall so if i want help for another 1 i will sure to visit this website ;D
no… i use comodo firewall…
Ok that a 2 Ways. Good. But i hope you read here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=46737.0 No for make you mad or Comodo mad but well they did bad thing and we are no responsible of it. We are here to say the truth no the false. I also dont wanna lose them so reputation so they shouldnt blame me if they did this nasty thing. Well its not my problem. All know it now i think.
not doin their job, according to the link…
Well its talk about them so its talk about their product.
Edit : Gotta go bye. Im playing with my game now 