> I have and use Webroot Antispyware and recently added the newly included
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> Webroot Firewall to the set, since the addition was free with the Webroot
> subscription and Webroot announced that its Firewall was compatible with
> Windows Vista and provided some advertising information stating that it
> was better.
>
> I have had a few bumps since the installation, and have noticed that some
> of the websites are sometimes a little slowly to appear, but in general,
> it seems to work OK so far.
>
> One thing that I have noted now is that the Windows Vista Firewall is
> turned "off".
>
> Those of you who have installed the Webroot Firewall, can you post what
> your experiences are in its compatibility with Vista? What do you all
> think about the automatic turning off of the Vista Firewall? Which one do
> you "subjectively" think that is better (The Vista or the Webroot
> Firewall?).
>
As already mentioned you don't want two software firewalls enabled at the
same time so it's appropriate for Webroot to turn off the Windows Firewall
automatically (it should turn the Windows Firewall back ON too, if/when you
uninstall it). As far as which is better, one advantage of Webroot and
other third party firewalls is they have outbound connection monitoring ON
by default. The Windows Firewall has outbound connection monitoring turned
OFF by default (I've read that it can be turned ON, but I haven't tried it).
I think monitoring outbound connections has value. Currently I use PC Tools
Firewall Plus (freeware) which is stable on Vista and doesn't slowdown
browsing.