Avira Premium Security Suite

Can anyone tell me the differences between these 2 settings in the Firewall of this Suite The Medium Setting is:

Suspicious TCP and UDP packets are discarded
Flooding and Portscan are prevented.

While the High Setting is:
Computer is invisible on the network
Connections from outside are blocked
Flooding and portscan are prevented

Correct me if I'm wrong,but I presume having it set to high would be more preventative, or is there little diference between the 2

 

Heres what I found from the avira forum: High setting stealths your ports and Medium doesnt. Also the High setting conflicts with p2p.

 

Well I just ran a check at pcflank.com and it passes the most rigorous tests at medium setting such as:

Stealth Test
Trojans Test
Advanced Port Scanner
Exploits test

All these returned a perfect 100% Stealthed, so the Avira forum statement leaves something to be desired
All stealthed at ShieldsUp also.

 

Are you behind a Router?

 

Wouldnt have a clue All I know is I have a ADSL2 Connection and my Conection indicator in the taskbar states its Conected to Local and Internet

 

If your Ip address is 192.168.X.X than most probably you are behind a router which will give you inbound firewall protection.
You will find more info on the link below, I hope this helps.


http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/windowsnetworkin1/ht/findaddrwinxp.htm