Giving another try---About Firewall

We keep going round and round in circles with this. It has been said the AV-only version had the firewall helper before; you just didn't see it so, by that definition, it was not and never was AV-only even then. It's semantics. You now have visibility. If you don't want that, turn it off.

Now can we end this? Webroot are not going to change this anytime soon. You either:

1. accept there was a firewall helper previously with no UI available, but now there is.

2. learn to use the firewall helper via the UI or disable it.

3. forget the product completely if it bothers you that much.

 

Don't you worry about my opinion
you have yours
I have mine
I'm sure you will lose no sleep over it
I will not either

 

Let's leave it at that then, and we'll all sleep soundly.

 

FYI - even if we had an option to "not install" the firewall, it would still be there in the code, taking up about 8KB as it's all in the same binary. All that it would do is hide the tab and disable it.

If that's really something that people want, then we can look into doing it... but know that the exact same monitoring will still be there 24/7 as it uses the exact same code for its behavior monitoring, so you would have literally a 0% change in performance and a 0% change in disk space.

 

ok