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One in Five PC's Infected With Rootkits »
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TheJoker
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Alexandria, VA

reply to MunichKid
Re: Avira AntiVir Personal Classic and Premium

How is the firewall in the suite? I've never looked at it, but in some suites the firewall seemed to be an afterthought, bought by buying some other company to be able to compete with other full featured suites.

It it easy to configure custom rules, such as for a particular program, only specific ports and only to a specific address(es)?

Does it have the ability to protect confidential information, such as specifying specific data that you want to block (such as SSAN or account numbers)?
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said by TheJoker See Profile :

How is the firewall in the suite? I've never looked at it, but in some suites the firewall seemed to be an afterthought, bought by buying some other company to be able to compete with other full featured suites.

It it easy to configure custom rules, such as for a particular program, only specific ports and only to a specific address(es)?

Does it have the ability to protect confidential information, such as specifying specific data that you want to block (such as SSAN or account numbers)?
The firewall is not half bad, you can specify ports and addresses if you need to. I don't think there are any features for protecting confidential data. I used it briefly (for a week) and the only real issue I had was it forgot my rules a few times. That was enough for me to dump it, but perhaps it has been fixed since then, this was about 3 months ago. I'd say in general, you could do better, but then again, you could also do worse...
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