which firewall is the best/easiest

asininity

Threatfire is antimalware/antispyware it tries to stop the stuff getting onto you computer in the first place. Most free antispyware apps dont offer a residential shield.

DCFC79

I use online armor and pc tools obviously on different machines and they are both good, i have found them to be less intrusive than comodo and maybe zonealarm

ARTHUR

Deleted_User wrote: »

The chances are the router has a built in hardware firewall already set up. The chances are you're also got NAT as well, effectively hiding your PC from the baddies on the Internet.



You've heard?

From who? On what basis do they have this view? Rumours? Hear-say?

Do yourself a favour. Read the thread I've posted above. Read the links on the thread. Then make an informed decision on what best suites your needs. Don't simply be a sheep and do something because someone says on the Internet. Myself included.

that is good advice david I will read your threads but I might not understand too much of it but I will give it a try

ARTHUR

asininity wrote: »

Threatfire is antimalware/antispyware it tries to stop the stuff getting onto you computer in the first place. Most free antispyware apps dont offer a residential shield.

threatfire sounds like a good addition to a firewall

ARTHUR

Deleted_User wrote: »

The chances are the router has a built in hardware firewall already set up. The chances are you're also got NAT as well, effectively hiding your PC from the baddies on the Internet.



You've heard?

From who? On what basis do they have this view? Rumours? Hear-say?

Do yourself a favour. Read the thread I've posted above. Read the links on the thread. Then make an informed decision on what best suites your needs. Don't simply be a sheep and do something because someone says on the Internet. Myself included.

Thanks for the links David they were a help, like some of the people said in the links I want an outbound firewall in case I pick up trojans, worms, keyloggers and the like, I understand that as you say in the links that once you have them on your computer then its too late as they can circumvent your firewall but I feel that an outbound firewall is an extra level of security that makes it harder for the trojans etc to steal my info, so I have settled for pc tools firewall without firethreat so it wont slow down my computer.
Thanks for the advice everyone

Steve_PS

If you want to know if / how well your firewall is working go to Shieldsup here:

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Proceed and click on 'all service ports'. This is an excellent firewall checker. Note, if you are behind a proxy server, the results you get will be for that server, not your PC.