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<blockquote data-quote="Lenny_Fox" data-source="post: 951031" data-attributes="member: 82776">I really like Avast, but it delays startup of programs for about a second more than for instance KSF or MD. Since exploits were used to abuse &#039;normal&#039; programs as a piggy back for malware to go outbound, I sort of gave up on an outbound application firewall and bought a hardware firewall (which also has software, but you get the point).There are bigger fish in the ocean like unpactched IoT devices for instance. The home firewall devices which I can afford to buy claims to have some limited form of intrusion protection. I think that combining router&#039;s IPS with a DNS services which offer some additional bad-url blocking, the loss of the outbound firewall protection is somewhat compensated.On the positive the exploit protection and attck surface reduction rules offered by MD have also improved.So an outbound firewall is not my highest priority, I hope Avast focusses on reducing the program launch delay next. Not all people have the latest and the hottest hardware. But I guess people using older PC&#039;s probably are also more inclined to use a free AV (and probably are less important to AV companies which have to make money to develop their software), so I understand their choices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lenny_Fox, post: 951031, member: 82776"] I really like Avast, but it delays startup of programs for about a second more than for instance KSF or MD. Since exploits were used to abuse 'normal' programs as a piggy back for malware to go outbound, I sort of gave up on an outbound application firewall and bought a hardware firewall (which also has software, but you get the point). There are bigger fish in the ocean like unpactched IoT devices for instance. The home firewall devices which I can afford to buy claims to have some limited form of intrusion protection. I think that combining router's IPS with a DNS services which offer some additional bad-url blocking, the loss of the outbound firewall protection is somewhat compensated. On the positive the exploit protection and attck surface reduction rules offered by MD have also improved. So an outbound firewall is not my highest priority, I hope Avast focusses on reducing the program launch delay next. Not all people have the latest and the hottest hardware. But I guess people using older PC's probably are also more inclined to use a free AV (and probably are less important to AV companies which have to make money to develop their software), so I understand their choices. [/QUOTE]

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