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How good is Avast Free AV's Firewall?
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<blockquote data-quote="JasonUK" data-source="post: 968955" data-attributes="member: 86995"><p>Avast free AV (since v21.7) now includes a free firewall but there's very little information out there on whether it's any good or if it's an improvement on Windows' own firewall particularly if WIndows Firewall has been hardened with Andy Ful's Firewall Hardening tool.</p><p></p><p>Can anyone offer any insight on the relative benefits / downsides of enabling Avast's firewall over the basic Window's one? The presumption here is obviously Avast's AV is being used in preference to Defender. I'm inclined to stick with WIndows firewall as a) it works, b) it's part of Windows & c) you can configure & harden it to a degree whereas Avast's seems, judging by Avast forum comments, to be largely set & forget but with little control.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JasonUK, post: 968955, member: 86995"] Avast free AV (since v21.7) now includes a free firewall but there's very little information out there on whether it's any good or if it's an improvement on Windows' own firewall particularly if WIndows Firewall has been hardened with Andy Ful's Firewall Hardening tool. Can anyone offer any insight on the relative benefits / downsides of enabling Avast's firewall over the basic Window's one? The presumption here is obviously Avast's AV is being used in preference to Defender. I'm inclined to stick with WIndows firewall as a) it works, b) it's part of Windows & c) you can configure & harden it to a degree whereas Avast's seems, judging by Avast forum comments, to be largely set & forget but with little control. [/QUOTE]
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