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I know that people have other firewalls besides Windows defender, why is that the case if you already have one? Do you have to turn off defender to use it?
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@mary said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
I know that people have other firewalls besides Windows defender, why is that the case if you already have one? Do you have to turn off defender to use it?
Because you've been duped by a salesperson. Honesty, replacing the high quality, free, integrated, battle tested OS firewall with some third party tool is totally crazy. They aren't better, but sales people prey on ignorance, laziness, deception, or a general distrust of Microsoft (in which case, why are you running Windows?!?!?) and convince people to do all kinds of things.
Some of those other firewalls are okay, most are not. I've never heard of one that would ever make sense to consider, though.
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But that's a market answer (meaning not technical.) In the real world today, Windows' firewall is likely the best made for Windows, and free, so no other is viable.
In theory, someone could make a better firewall with special features and then you could evaluate it based on those features.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
But that's a market answer (meaning not technical.) In the real world today, Windows' firewall is likely the best made for Windows, and free, so no other is viable.
In theory, someone could make a better firewall with special features and then you could evaluate it based on those features.
Windows Defneder is not Windows Firewall.
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@JaredBusch said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
But that's a market answer (meaning not technical.) In the real world today, Windows' firewall is likely the best made for Windows, and free, so no other is viable.
In theory, someone could make a better firewall with special features and then you could evaluate it based on those features.
Windows Defneder is not Windows Firewall.
She didn't say that it was. Windows Defender is the anti-virus product. Windows Defender Firewall is the firewall product. She used the correct name.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028544/windows-10-turn-windows-defender-firewall-on-or-off
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@JaredBusch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Firewall "Windows Firewall (officially called Windows Defender Firewall in Windows 10)"
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
@JaredBusch said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
But that's a market answer (meaning not technical.) In the real world today, Windows' firewall is likely the best made for Windows, and free, so no other is viable.
In theory, someone could make a better firewall with special features and then you could evaluate it based on those features.
Windows Defneder is not Windows Firewall.
She didn't say that it was. Windows Defender is the anti-virus product. Windows Defender Firewall is the firewall product. She used the correct name.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028544/windows-10-turn-windows-defender-firewall-on-or-off
Maybe implied, but not stated.
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@JaredBusch well it's good to be explicit that Windows Defender and Windows Defender Firewall are two different products. But also Windows Firewall isn't a real name, either. Windows Defender Firewall is the name of the Windows firewall. So using "Windows Firewall" or "firewall by Windows Defender" are essentially the same - lose descriptions of the brand name. All make sense. Good to remember that the pieces are discrete.
The best full statement is "the Windows firewall is Windows Defender Firewall."
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
@JaredBusch well it's good to be explicit that Windows Defender and Windows Defender Firewall are two different products. But also Windows Firewall isn't a real name, either. Windows Defender Firewall is the name of the Windows firewall. So using "Windows Firewall" or "firewall by Windows Defender" are essentially the same - lose descriptions of the brand name. All make sense. Good to remember that the pieces are discrete.
The best full statement is "the Windows firewall is Windows Defender Firewall."
True, but until Windows 10, it was simply called Windows Firewall. So that is a correct legacy term. Vista introduced the longer term Windows Firewall with Advanced Security in the MMC snap in.
It stayed those two terms until Windows 10.
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Interesting, so is a bad idea to disable the firewall that we have with our own OS Windows, what about the Windows Defender, I mean the antivirus and the firewall of Windows They go hand in hand right?
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@brianwinkelmann said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
Interesting, so is a bad idea to disable the firewall that we have with our own OS Windows
It is definitely a bad idea to disable an operating system's firewall, except for special cases like temporary testing.
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@brianwinkelmann said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:
what about the Windows Defender, I mean the antivirus and the firewall of Windows They go hand in hand right?
They go together as in they are both security components of the Windows operating system. But that's about the extent of it. They are both very good, they should both always be used, they are both for the purpose of security. But they are not actually associated other than in name.
