Advice Request TrendMicro Firewall booster

[Dave Russo]

Anyone have advice on so called Firewall booster?

 

[nickstar1]

In my opinion it is pretty set and forget but someone that would know more is trident.

 

[cartaphilus]

Anyone have advice on so called Firewall booster?

it looks like a DPI layer with an IPS. If you only have windows firewall then sure why not. Otherwise if you have any other security package that comes with a firewall then you already have that built in (well in majority of the packages). Majority of Security Package firewalls are just ^^^^ that type of wrapper with a better gui that's running on top of a windows firewall. Gone are the days of individual firewalls like AtGuard, Outpost, Sygate etc. I think the only lefovers are Norton and ZoneAlarm, otherwise every other firewall is windows firewall at the core.

 

[TuxTalk]

mcafee also uses Windows Firewall, but they enhance it a bit.

 

[Trident]

mcafee also uses Windows Firewall, but they enhance it a bit.

The new McAfee uses two firewalls. Windows Firewall for inbound connections and their own for outbound. They now block connection to malicious domains/IP addresses finally.