They also deploy a proxy in an identical manner. I'm more than covered anyhow.Īlso I'm pretty sure Avira's Web Guard has the same problem. With SBIE, NoScript, D+, DNS filtering, WOT, VTzilla, and VT Hash Check scanning new files anyway. I'll gladly sacrifice web scanning to keep those measures intact. connecting out, sending pings home (CCleaner does it with every install), setting hooks. I know plenty of apps that are generally trusted in here that do strange things by monitoring them with my outbound FW & HIPS. Can you assure me it isn't sending out any user info? How about other apps/processes, even ones generally trusted? If it's not necessary for what I need to get done, I don't allow it.
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And I personally don't know what Explorer is trying to do, connecting out every time I try to install something, but I don't like it, or trust it. blah blah blah" can be prevented with a tight outbound filtering regimen. Most of those patches you see that say "this could allow a remote user to compromise. You never know when a Windows service even, like svchost.exe, will become vulnerable to an exploit that needs patched with next Tuesday's batch. I also think it's faulty logic that outbound filtering is rendered moot if you have no malware.
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It's up to end users to be aware of such conflicts and decide on how to handle it accordingly. Nor will outbound FW vendors ditch outbound protection over it. That doesn't mean they don't consider it a viable concern. Web scanning on the other hand, I do live without just fine, and even thrive without.Īnd I don't see why Avast would ditch something that's been around for so long, and become such a staple, even knowing about this conflict. I definitely cannot live without outbound filtering. So my advice would be to only use one or the other. if both conflict with each other you could end up with NEITHER product properly protecting you in the end. Click to expand.By continuing to use both your protection could end up being weakened in the end.