PC Tools Firewall V5 and AV Web Scanner

Does the new PC Tools FW beta properly handle AV's that use web scanner proxies? From what I can gather from their forum V4 did not.

 

I really doubt you'll find any FW which can solve that problem, use "in the house FW", not 3rd party one, or change your AV to one which don't use local proxy or disable scanning on certain or all ports...

 

I'm using v5 with NOD32 v4 Beta (web-scanner on), and the firewall does alert the user of internet connections accordingly.

 

Thanks...I'll give it a try.

 

I know OA has this issue covered but it did not like my setup. I think Comodo does too.

 

Im not sure, I think you add only connection to 127.0.0.1 and in some cases DNS (53), every port monitored by "local proxy owner" (e.g. 25, 80, 110, 465, 995, 8080...) is already created in FW.... check your rules

 

From their website it looks like Version 5 has gone GOLD...

 

Thanks for the info.

It looks like you can tell PC Tools FW that the webguard application is a local proxy and set it to prompt for permission to let an outbound connection occur.

 

Thanks...I just installed the latest V5.

 

I might just give it a try based on all the positive feedback I have seen. The firewall engine seems based on Look N Stop but the extra features make it a bit tantalizing...