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Originally Posted by Blossom
Thanks BR I'll give it a try. I'm currently searching for an AV and Firewall. Comodo has stopped working and latest version throws the Netbook into a tizzy. BSOD and won't let programs run and causing driver conflicts. I tried disabling everything but the Firewall but same thing.
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What I run under XP is a freeware product called Sygate Personal Firewall.
The product was acquired and killed off by Symantec years back, to prevent competition with their firewall product. but it still runs, and has the best interface I've seen in a firewall. Install it and do stuff. When something wants to connect to the outside world, you can approve or block it, and it remembers the choice. You can find Sygate at Major Geeks:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...wall_free.html
It will nag you to register. You can't, but trying to will shut up the nag. It's been entirely adequate for me, and runs splendidly under XP.
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I have it on my Windows 10 laptop and been having problems launching programs. I'm thinking now it's the culprit. Why must they break something I've been using for years.
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If you have Windows 10, you have Windows built-in firewall. It's entirely adequate for blocking inbound connections, and you don't
need Comodo.
If you want to block outgoing connections, it can do that too if you turn on strict mode, but that's a major PITA to configure and maintain. I don't bother. I know what is on my system and what it connects to.
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Dennis