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<blockquote data-quote="a090" data-source="post: 1033297" data-attributes="member: 99949">Can confirm [USER=79347]@Spartan[/USER].&nbsp; As a recent convert to F-Secure from Defender (and ESET before that), the following is true:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The new F-Secure Internet Security (successor to F-Secure SAFE) has no firewall component.&nbsp; Supposedly it adds rules to the Windows Firewall to make it more resilent to attack and/or shutdown.&nbsp; But I can’t confirm that.&nbsp; [USER=92939]@Shadowra[/USER] will likely know the answer to this.&nbsp; I use Windows Firewall Control (WFC) and killed all the previous Windows Firewall rules so if F-Secure added any, I didn’t see them.&nbsp; All connections on my system have to ask permission manually to connect due to WFC.&nbsp; And yes, both F-Secure and WFC work amazingly well together.&nbsp; Big thanks to [USER=96829]@piquiteco[/USER] for helping set it up for me and answering all of my niche and out of the ordinary questions.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">F-Secure Total also does not include a firewall.&nbsp; The difference between Total and Internet Security mentioned above is Total bundles the F-Secure VPN and the Password Manager into Internet Security’s interface, and calls the whole thing Total.&nbsp; But no firewall.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">F-Secure does not install a root certificate for MITM your browser connections for HTTPS scanning.&nbsp; The way F-Secure checks HTTPS connections is via the browser extension.&nbsp; If you don’t want it, you can disable it.&nbsp; The only downside is you lose browsing protection as a whole (phishing / malware pages likely won’t be blocked) but the malware itself, should you encounter any, will be blocked by F-Secure’s active protection once you try to download it.</li>
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[QUOTE="a090, post: 1033297, member: 99949"] Can confirm [USER=79347]@Spartan[/USER]. As a recent convert to F-Secure from Defender (and ESET before that), the following is true: [LIST=1] [*]The new F-Secure Internet Security (successor to F-Secure SAFE) has no firewall component. Supposedly it adds rules to the Windows Firewall to make it more resilent to attack and/or shutdown. But I can’t confirm that. [USER=92939]@Shadowra[/USER] will likely know the answer to this. I use Windows Firewall Control (WFC) and killed all the previous Windows Firewall rules so if F-Secure added any, I didn’t see them. All connections on my system have to ask permission manually to connect due to WFC. And yes, both F-Secure and WFC work amazingly well together. Big thanks to [USER=96829]@piquiteco[/USER] for helping set it up for me and answering all of my niche and out of the ordinary questions. [*]F-Secure Total also does not include a firewall. The difference between Total and Internet Security mentioned above is Total bundles the F-Secure VPN and the Password Manager into Internet Security’s interface, and calls the whole thing Total. But no firewall. [*][B]F-Secure does not install a root certificate for MITM your browser connections for HTTPS scanning.[/B] The way F-Secure checks HTTPS connections is via the browser extension. If you don’t want it, you can disable it. The only downside is you lose browsing protection as a whole (phishing / malware pages likely won’t be blocked) but the malware itself, should you encounter any, will be blocked by F-Secure’s active protection once you try to download it. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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