Malware Defender "firewall"

What are the opinions of folks here of the MD network protection?(default setup straight out of the box).For those who like to use a software firewall for outgoing apps ,would MDs be adequate?.Does it interfere with other firewalls such as windows firewall ,or third party ones?.
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ellison

 

For basic outgoing protection, Malware Defender is quite adequate IMHO. It fails the Comodo Leak Test Suite DNS test in the testing that I have done. I have used MD with Jetico for a long time without issue. I have also played around in a VM with MD and Kerio 2.1.5, PC Tools FW 6, Outpost, Visnetic, and probably a few others that are escaping me at this time. All of these firewalls plugged the DNS test failure I mentioned earlier. I didn't have any issues as long as I rebooted once in learning mode after installing the FW.

 

ellison, MD's FW is an adequate network protection, only if it is combined with a hardware FW.

I use hardware (zyxel) firewall, windows XP FW, MD & Sandboxie. Thats all my protection, combined with on demand scans with Cureit & AntiMalware.

 

The author said: "The MD's firewall cannot block some low level packets, so it failed the dns and echo tests."

Read here: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1545985#post1545985

 

The MD firewall is based on the Base Filtering Engine, the built in packet filter of Windows that is also the core of Windows firewall, so it seems pointless to run both the MD firewall and Windows Firewall. Correct me if I am wrong.

 

I think you are right. I maybe drop windows FW