The Windows Vista firewall blocks both incoming and outgoing malicious
traffic so there is not need to install a third party application. Some
people, of course, don't bother with the Vista firewall, replacing it
instead with the free version of Zone Alarm or something similar. Personally
I haven't found the need to do this and have always used the Vista Firewall.
If, on the other hand, you chose to use Windows One Care (an application I
am not particularly keen on) this will actually disable the windows vista
firewall and also Windows defender. It disables them because One Care uses
its own built in copies of both the Vista firewall and Windows defender and
you don't need two running at the same time.
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"**jerry**" <didjerrydoo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> i'd like to know details about the vista firewall. Does it now indeed
> block incoming and outgoing?
> i assume microsoft didnot create the firewall for nothing. So is it really
> neccesary to install another one, and if so, do i then need to turn off
> the windows firewall?
> and if i need another one, which one?
> Thank you for all help,
> Jerry
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