Toggle GlassWire off in its GUI and just its rules will be disabled which comes in handy when troubleshooting. Rules are built in the Defender Firewall, each as a numbered and/or app.out_ without disturbing the native rules. The others are Ask To Connect and First Network Activity where you get alerts to make appropriate decsions. Firefox's pingsender.exe or Windows Runtime Broker, runtimebroker.exe or USO Core Worker Process, usocoreworker.exe. Its primary abilities are a one-click block (and un-block) for internet facing executables, e.g. Poke around on the web site and in a few minutes a 20% discount offer should pop up if you haven't hardened the heck out of your browser. I prefer GlassWire, if you can afford it. There's more going on under the Defender hood, beyond the scope of this discussion.īut you need at least one of many third party GUI utilities to make life easy.
As well, Windows has its own Network Inspection Service (NIS): Microsoft Network Realtime Inspection, ServiceWdNisSvc as nissrv.exe. Windows' Firewall, now known as Microsoft Defender Firewall, has excellent stateful protection. If you decide to give Comodo FW a trial, I recommend you check out CruelSister's EXCELLENT configuration guidance at HERE. I recommend you to take a close look at using Tiny Wall because: (a) it has a very active support thread here at Wilders, and (b) TinyWall's developer participates very often in that thread. In answer to your question: YES for Comodo FW, and "I don't know" for all other 3rd party FWs. For example, the ComodoFW has a built-in sandbox that can be used to safely do a check-run of apps without exposing the user's computer to infection or BSODs. If carefully configured by the user, the Comodo FW can be far more powerful than a front-end-plus-WindowsFW. 3rd party firewalls are a good bit more complicated to configure than front-end apps.
So, YES - they do give more protection than the Windows FW alone. They help the user to easily configure the Windows FW. Front-end apps are very user-friendly.Examples of 3rd party FW are: Comodo and Evorim.Īs to your question, " Do they give more protection than the Windows firewall?". Some Wilders folks prefer to use a 3rd party, self-sufficient FW instead of using the Windows FW. There are several excellent front-end apps that are being discussed here at Wilders. A front-end application lets the user easily configure the Windows FW. Therefore, many Wilders members use a "front end" application. It is a good FW but it is difficult to configure. As you probably know, Windows has its own built-in FireWall (FW).
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