Which Firewall
Question: I am presently running windows firewall. Do I need another firewall? I have looked at these:
- zone alarm personal firewall (free)
- keri personal firewall (free)
- sygate personal firewall (free)
Which one would you recomend?
anonymous
Answer: The worst firewall is the one built into Windows because it doesn't protect you against anything that has managed to get onto your computer (perhaps by being attached to something that you intended to download). Once it is on your computer it can communicate out and can update thne firewall settings to allow itself to come back in after you find and delete it.
Any other firewall will stop such malware that has succeeded in getting in from being able to communicate out and also will not allow it to update the security settings so it wont be able to come back in automatically once you find and delete it.
I purchased ZoneAlarm security suite for my computer which also has antivirus, antispyware, and web filtering (as well as a few other options I haven't looked at yet). From what I have read the various free firewalls are all reasonably good for use on a stand-alone computer (I bought the upgrade of ZoneAlarm because I needed it to protect a network sharing internet access).
