Which third party firewall for Windows 10?

Comodo blocks 360 Security AV and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get AV updates. I uninstall comodo and it works.

 

Hardware firewalls are a PITA to manage, a simpler alternative is to use custom firmware on your router like Tomato & DD-WRT which enable hardware SPI through IPTables. Windows Firewall, btw, is terrible for blocking outgoing connections. Install Wireshark and watch how much data Windows and other major software (Adobe, Google, etc) leaks.

 

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Try it for yourself.
WFC = front-end for Windows Firewall
simplewall = third party program to configure WFP > It disables WF to do its job.

 

I know about that part. But when it comes to features, is simplewall better than WFC? I would not know this even if I tried because I am a novice and I would not understand the advance features of the firewall

 

I'd say it's better in terms of easiness for a simple use on a daily basis. Try it for yourself. Better yet, try the portable one, latest beta 2.2.1

 

True if it comes to Cisco and the like.

Using a 'Home make Firewall' on an old machine, which may stay unused 'around', with apps like Smoothwall Express, PFSense and alike, which running on Linux server OS, that's quite a bit different. You just delegate ALL traffic in and out over that machine and controls not one machine only, you control the security of a whole LAN!

 

Ok I'll try. Its better performance but in terms of features is WFC still better?

 

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@MS_User: What do you think how many users of MDL are able to program and/or configure a Cisco Firewall? 1% or 5% or 10% or what percentage? Same applies to any other Hardware Firewall I know.

And the next point is: Auto-Updating with a Plan from Cisco (and the others), which isn't cheap! and if you don't do that updating, you're outdated very fast, means get un-secured in not a long time.

Not forget to mention, even Hardware Firewalls running on nothing else then just on Software, ALL of them!

So why going the hard way? Using the way I'd show in Post #68, would be something that at least 50% of the even normal user could handle with a bit of effort. And it even could be free of any charge if those old and/or unused Machine is available, maybe just a very little money would be need if some 2-3 NIC's need to be bought because the Software (Smoothwall Express and PFSense) is Freeware and come with its own OS, also free of charge!

I use such system, not on my own office/company only, on nearly all of my customer's companies too, with great success.

 

I tried it. It is easier and lighter than WFC. I will use simplewall over WFC

 

To run Cisco u need to be certified u need at least CCA and yes a agree not to many people here can handle it....but my point is going to the main topic... what is the best firewall is hardware and yes they are configure with software but the backbone is hardware.

 

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Netlimiter is a bandwidth controller, not a firewall.

 

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That's why I don't use Windows Defender. It flags most known harmless programs as a trojan. It blocks X:\Windows\AutoKMS among other things
where a third party antivirus will usually let things like that run.

 

WFC for sure, but it just provides a much better control of the built-in Windows Firewall.