Is Win 10 Firewall enough?

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  • December 19, 2019 at 10:29 pm #39011
    rockonbazzarockonbazza
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      Hi, for years I have always used Avast Antivirus, and Zone Alarm Firewall. Still used them when I changed to Win 10, and (thankfully) have never had any security/virus issues. Zone Alarm is causing a couple of issues now however (mainly with Xbox Game Pass PC) and I have to uninstall ZA to download any games from that site and then re-install ZA. I have decided to keep running Avast Antivirus, and permanently uninstalled Zone Alarm, and using Win 10 Firewall. Will that firewall suffice? Or should I install another third party firewall. I have seen Comodo and GlassWire (both free) mentioned as being good firewalls, though I read somewhere that GlassWire doesnt do much more than the Win 10 firewall. Should I just stick with WIN10 firewall, or install another? Thanks

      December 19, 2019 at 10:43 pm #39013
      Mark TurnerMark Turner
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        I have windows firewall enabled and the router has one and I have never had any problems I think you would only need to install a third party firewall if you needed extra features that the windows one doesn’t have. As for Avast I haven’t used for ages it started getting bloated so now I just use Windows security and again never had any problems.

        December 20, 2019 at 12:42 am #39014
        Wheels-Of-FireWheels-Of-Fire
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          When PC’s were first connected to broadband via a USB modem it was vitally important to have a firewall program installed to block incoming connection attempts. We now all sit behind a NAT router that will just ignore almost all unsolicited connection attempts. A firewall program can still stop any malware you may get from calling home by blocking outgoing requests and the W10 firewall is quite good at that.

          December 20, 2019 at 9:12 am #39016
          Dave RiceDave Rice
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            @ricedg
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            +1 it’s all you need on a PC but if your AV comes with one there’s no reason not to use that instead.

            December 20, 2019 at 1:23 pm #39021
            Wheels-Of-FireWheels-Of-Fire
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              If you would like to check if your router has left any ports open then Shields Up ! By Gibson Research is good idea, its free and you may like to look at some of the other stuff on the site like InSpector.

              December 20, 2019 at 2:27 pm #39025
              Ed PEd P
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                Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

                If you would like to check if your router has left any ports open then Shields Up ! By Gibson Research is good idea, its free and you may like to look at some of the other stuff on the site like InSpector.

                Fing is pretty good at checking any wifi ports you have open.

                December 20, 2019 at 8:37 pm #39041
                rockonbazzarockonbazza
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                  Thanks for the replies, much appreciated. I will check out Shields Up,and Fing. Thanks

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