Windows Firewall & Vipre

If I ran Vipre, would the Windows firewall (in XP and in Vista) be sufficient protection, or would I still need to use a third party firewall? I am running Vista x64 on one of my laptops, and there does not seem to be a good selection of third party firewalls compatible with Vista x64. I do have a Linksys router at my home network. Are there any special settings in the router to ensure that there is a hardware firewall?

 

Outpost and Comodo Internet Security run on Vista 64x.

If you use the Comodo Security Suite, when you install it you will get to a screen that will allow you to select to only install the firewall.

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Well, the Windows Firewall does exactly what it's designed to do. Inbound protection ..and some outbound protection in vista.

.. so the question would be, do you need outbound "protection"?

I was thinking about this some time ago and tried several software firewalls and came to the conclusion that I should use windows firewall and focus on where the real problem is: malware installing in the first place. I'll try to prevent that with a HIPS rather than trying to keep already installed malware in and not connecting out.

No problems this far.

 

Windows firewall should be sufficent.

 

windows firewall works for me